Russia tells UK: show us proof of our ‘poison plot’

RUSSIA faced fresh condemnation last night after it demanded that Britain reveal top-secret answers to 41 ‘very precise’ questions about the spy-poisoning saga.

The Russian Embassy in London accused the British Government of breaching diplomatic rules by refusing to provide detailed information about the health of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. It demanded proof that they were attacked by a nerve agent.

President Vladimir Putin’s regime has insisted that it has the right to visit Ms Skripal, who is recovering in hospital while her former double agent father remains critically ill, nearly a month after they were found collapsed in Salisbury.

Putting further pressure on the UK last night, Russia doubled to 50 the number of British diplomats that it is expelling.

Alexander Yakovenko, Russian Ambassador to London, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘The British side behaves incredibly irresponsibly.’ Mr Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were struck down on March 4.

Theresa May declared that the Russian state was responsible for the attempted murders and expelled 23 alleged spies based at the Russian Embassy in London.

That move was backed by the co-ordinated expulsion of more than 150 Russians from its missions across the West.

The Government here has ordered one Russian diplomat to leave Ireland.

Moscow has denied any involvement in the poisoning.

The Russian Embassy first posted 27 ‘unanswered questions’ about the poisoning online.

Late last night, it posted another 14, for the first time claiming that French experts were involved in the investigation. It asked: ‘On what grounds has France been involved in technical co-operation?’