UK Prime Minister Theresa May's claims about Russia's alleged role in the Salisbury and Amesbury poisoning incidents are "unacceptable" and contain "peremptory" accusations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Friday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 07th September, 2018) UK Prime Minister Theresa May's claims about Russia's alleged role in the Salisbury and Amesbury poisoning incidents are "unacceptable" and contain "peremptory" accusations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Friday.
On Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Theresa May said that the Russian military intelligence was behind the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the city of Salisbury on March 4.
"The UK prime minister's speech in the UK Parliament on September 5, as well as the declarations that she had previously made on Salisbury and Amesbury, had an unacceptable tone," Zakharova said at a press briefing.
She went on to say that May's speech, as well as her previous claims concerning the incidents, contained "peremptory accusations against the Russian Federation."
"We adamantly refute all the defamation lodged and declared by the United Kingdom," Zakharova added.
On March 4, Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping center in Salisbury. The United Kingdom and its allies have accused Moscow of having orchestrated the attack with what UK experts claim was the A234 nerve agent, without presenting any proof. Russian authorities have strongly refuted the allegations as groundless.
On July 4, the UK police reported on a "serious incident" in Amesbury, where two people were exposed to an unknown substance and hospitalized in critical condition. Shortly thereafter, UK police announced that the couple, Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, were believed to have handled an item supposedly contaminated with the same military-grade nerve agent which was allegedly used in an attack on the Skripals. Sturgess died in the hospital on July 8.
