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UK says Putin ‘ultimately’ responsible for spy poisoning
LONDON, Sept 6, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – British Security Minister Ben Wallace
said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “ultimate”
responsibility for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent in
England in March.
“Ultimately he does in so far as he is the president of the Russian
Federation and it is his government that controls, funds and directs the
military intelligence,” which London has accused of carrying out the Novichok
poisoning, Wallace told BBC radio.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 1330 hrs