UK warns foreign states over Russian ex-spy's suspected poisoning
Source: Agence France-Presse
6 MAR 2018
Britain warned Tuesday it would respond "robustly" if it emerged that a government was behind the suspected poisoning of a former Russian double agent found unconscious on a street bench in England.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson even suggested England could pull out of the 2018 football World Cup in Russia if it were shown to be behind the incident.
Sergei Skripal was a former colonel in Russian military intelligence who spied for Britain and moved there in a spy swap in 2010. He was found outside a shopping centre along with his daughter Yulia in the southwestern English city of Salisbury on Sunday. The pair were treated for "suspected exposure to an unknown substance" and are in a critical condition in a local hospital, police said in a statement.
Johnson told the House of Commons that it was too soon to establish the cause of the "disturbing" incident, which caused a major security alert in the normally quiet city.
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Of course Boris is a well-known British Patriot...
Boris Johnson in spotlight as questions raised over Russian influence on UK
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/04/boris-johnson-brexit-russia-trump
