According to Washington Post, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that his government knows the identity of the men accused by Britain for trying to murder a Russian former spy, and they were not criminals.
“There is nothing criminal about them. They are just ordinary civilians,” Putin told a session at an economic forum in Vladivostok broadcast on state TV.
Russia had previously said the names given to them by British prosecutors were meaningless.
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The two men charged by British prosecutors for using a military grade nerve agent in Britain against Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were identified as Russian citizens.
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