“I think it was a very useful meeting for them first of all, but also for us, because we began to understand a little bit better what happened in Amesbury and what is happening around the investigation in Salisbury,” said Yakovenko.
He noted that most of the questions for him were built on the complete absence of information from the British side. According to him, most of the data that they possessed are press reports.
“In particular, they asked a question about whether Russia was poisoned by Skripale and whether it is the country that could produce the“ Novice ”. Naturally, we gave a full explanation on this matter, and I proved to him again convincingly on the facts that this so-called “Novice” can be produced by any laboratory in Europe, which actually happened in the Czech Republic and other countries, ”said ambassador.
According to him, he was listened very attentively and friendly, trying to figure out what had happened.
In July 2018 in British Amesbury, two people were injured, presumably due to exposure to an unknown substance.
One of the victims, Don Sturgess, died in the clinic, her companion Charlie Rowley was discharged from the hospital on July 20th.