“Listen, all this confusion about intelligence and counterintelligence is not worth serious interstate relations. As we say in Russia, this espionage story is not worth even five kopecks, ”he said.
In December 2018, Putin described the situation with the Violiners as a pretext for an attack on Russia.
On March 5, 2018, it became known in British Salisbury that a man and a woman were poisoned with an “unknown substance,” after which they were hospitalized in critical condition.
The injured turned out to be the ex-Colonel of the GRU Sergey Skripal and his daughter.