“The British have never officially appealed to us for assistance in order to ask relevant questions to these two young people,” RIA Novosti quotes Yakovenko.

He noted that "no requests were sent to us regarding Petrov and Boshirov."

In September 2018, Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who are called by the British authorities to be responsible for the poisoning of the former GRU Colonel Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia, told RT the details of their trip to England in March 2018.