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RT editor-in-chief spoke to UK’s suspects in Skripal case, interview to be aired later today RT editor-in-chief spoke to UK’s suspects in Skripal case, interview to be aired later today
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RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan spoke to the two men London named as suspects in the Skripal case, and the interview is set to be aired soon. Earlier, Putin said they are civilians and "there is nothing criminal about them.” RT’s editor-in-chief said she spoke to the two men London named as suspects in the Skripal case, and the interview is set to be aired soon. Earlier, Putin said they are civilians and “there is nothing criminal about them.”
Simonyan said the interview took place on Wednesday. Last week the men in question were identified by the UK as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.
The mystery surrounding the Salisbury “suspects” started right after their pictures hit the front pages of the international media following a police press conference last week. According to Simonyan, while news outlets, including RT, have been scouring social media and other sources to find the two, Petrov and Boshirov reached out to her themselves.
While prosecutors just said that Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov had Russian passports, they did not elaborate on who the people are. In fact, law enforcement appealed to the public to come forward with any information regarding the two, saying the names were likely not their real one. “I did not look for them. Actually our editorial staff looked for them as all other professional media did: through social networks, sources etc. We have even found some people, but the wrong ones. Finally, real Petrov and Bashirov (as far as it can be checked) called me themselves,” Simonyan said.
The mystery surrounding the Salisbury “suspects” started right after their pictures hit the front pages of the international media following a police press conference.
While prosecutors just said that Petrov and Boshirov had Russian passports, they did not elaborate on who the people are. In fact, law enforcement appealed to the public to come forward with any information regarding the two, saying the names were likely not their real one.
British PM Theresa May, however, later clarified the “mystery,” claiming Boshirov and Petrov were no less than members of Russian military intelligence (GRU). She went further, implying Russia was involved in plotting the attack on ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter at the highest levels.
The claim has raised eyebrows of several analysts, who told RT that the men either wanted to be noticed on purpose or were just two ridiculously clumsy “agents.”
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