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Spy widow points finger at Russia | Spy widow points finger at Russia |
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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. |
Marina Litvinenko, 44, told the Mail on Sunday: "Obviously it was not Putin himself, of course not." | |
But she told the paper what President Putin "does around him in Russia makes it possible to kill a British person on British soil." | |
She said she would not help Russia's planned inquiry into the death. | |
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. |