“All publications of local media are carefully read in Russia. Taking into account their contradictory content, the public in our country is becoming more and more convinced that in Salisbury we have witnessed powerful anti-Russian provocation. The atmosphere of secrecy created by the British authorities around the investigation only feeds this conviction, ”the diplomatic department said.
They noted that in the conditions of this secrecy, the Russian media "are trying to understand what exactly happened in Salisbury almost a year ago."
“Including referring to the materials of their British colleagues. So, the appearance of some 138 "versions" (which, as it turns out when reading the report, are not really versions, but separate theses on various aspects of the case) - this, as the Foreign Office noted in one of its notes, is just a manifestation of public discussion ", - summed up at the embassy.
Earlier, the British Ambassador to Russia said that the GRU ex-colonel Sergey Skripal and Julia Skripal are alive.
According to him, “it’s not so difficult to understand why they might not want to meet with representatives of the Russian state.”