According to him, after "the first use of chemical weapons against a European country in a century," Britain "expelled the entire intelligence network of Russia" and took a number of measures, "including the fight against the illegal circulation of Russian money."
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) a number of secret measures that I obviously cannot talk about," Sedville said.
In his opinion, Russia "operates in a gray zone" - the gap between "normal interstate relations and armed conflict."
In particular, he accused Moscow of organizing cyberattacks and "information war".
“We are aiming to charge a higher price for Russia than they expected,” he added.
On October 12, the EU Council extended until October 16, 2021 all the imposed sanctions for the "use of chemical weapons", including against four Russians in the case of the incident with the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in British Salisbury.
On March 5, 2018, it became known that in the British Salisbury a man and a woman were poisoned by an "unknown substance", after which they were hospitalized in critical condition.
Skripal and his daughter were injured.
In December 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Skripals situation a pretext for an attack on Russia.