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The widow of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko has said she believes the Russian authorities could have been behind his murder.The widow of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko has said she believes the Russian authorities could have been behind his murder.
Russia is planning its own inquiry but Marina Litvinenko, 44, told the Mail on Sunday she would not help it. Marina Litvinenko, 44, told the Mail on Sunday: "Obviously it was not Putin himself, of course not."
She said she was confident UK police would find out who killed her husband. But she told the paper what President Putin "does around him in Russia makes it possible to kill a British person on British soil."
Mrs Litvinenko said her husband's last words to her last month before he died of suspected polonium-210 poisoning were: "Marina, I love you so much." She said she would not help Russia's planned inquiry into the death.
Two of the 26 police officers closely involved in the Litvinenko inquiry have tested positive for traces of that radioactive substance. Mrs Litvinenko added she was confident UK police would find out who killed her husband.
Meanwhile, two of the 26 police officers closely involved in the Litvinenko inquiry have tested positive for traces of that radioactive substance.
The Metropolitan Police said the polonium traces were "relatively small" and were "below defined safety limits".The Metropolitan Police said the polonium traces were "relatively small" and were "below defined safety limits".
Both officers are being monitored by health specialists.Both officers are being monitored by health specialists.
Mr Litvinenko had traces of polonium-210 in his body
Mrs Litvinenko also told the Mail on Sunday her husband's last words to her last month before he died of suspected polonium-210 poisoning were: "Marina, I love you so much."
She also said she would do everything she could for "Sasha", as her husband was known to family and friends.
"Even until the last day, and the day before when he became unconscious, I thought he would be okay. We were both completely sure he would recover, " she told the newspaper.
"We had been talking about bone-marrow transplants and looking to the future."
Mrs Litvinenko said the couple's 12-year-old son had found his father's death "very difficult", but he had been trying to comfort his mother.