41 reasons Putin has no shame as Russians demand answers from us
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, and asked for proof they were attacked by a nerve agent.
Some of the Russian questions include: What is Mr and Ms Skripal’s exact diagnosis and condition; why are there no photos/videos confirming that the Skripals are alive; through what methods did experts identify the substance so quickly?
President Vladimir Putin’s regime has insisted it has the right to visit Miss Skripal, who is recovering while her former double agent father remains critically ill nearly a month after they were found in Salisbury. Putting further pressure on the UK, Russia: Threatened to impose thorough searches on every British plane that lands on its territory, after UK Border Force officials searched a Russian passenger plane at Heathrow.
Linked the alleged murder of Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov in London on March 12 to UK ‘irresponsibility’.
Doubled to 50 the number of British diplomats it is expelling.
Offered to pay for a relative of the Skripals to visit them in hospital.
Alexander Yakovenko, Russian Ambassador to London, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘The provocation in Salisbury, and the murder of Glushkov, as we understand it now, plus what happened in Heathrow – this is all one chain. The British side in this situation behaves incredibly irresponsibly.’
Salisbury MP John Glen said it was ‘another ill-judged and cynical attempt to take the focus off the culpability of President Putin’.