The former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench at a Salisbury shopping centre on March 4. London accused Moscow of staging a chemical weapons attack on the Skripals while Moscow, in turn, stressed that the UK has yet to present any proof of Russian involvement in the case.
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service director Sergei Naryshkin has stated that London is destroying evidence related to the Skripal case.
On 4 March, Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping centre in Salisbury. London said they had been subject to poisoning with a military-grade nerve agent. London accused Moscow of staging the attack, saying it suspected Russian nationals Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov of executing the poisoning and claiming they worked for Russia’s intelligence.However, Moscow has repeatedly noted that London has not provided any evidence proving its role in the poisoning. Petrov and Boshirov, in their turn, denied their involvement in the attack in an interview with the RT broadcaster. They said they indeed visited Salisbury this spring, but arrived there for tourist purposes, noting that they worked for the fitness industry.