Last week, the UK government released CCTV footage of the two Russian men suspected of poisoning Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March. Since then, there’s been no sign of the alleged Russian secret agents, who had returned to their home country after the attack.
Until today. Now, the men have come out of hiding and given a bizarre interview to state-backed television channel Russia Today. In it, they deny that they work for the Russian secret service and explain that they only were in Salisbury on a fly-in visit ‘to see the Cathedral’:
Q: “You honestly look very tense,”
A: “And how would you look after all of that?” Petrov responded, before Boshirov said the British investigation “ruined their lives.”
Q: “Well, we came there [to the UK] on March 2, then went to a railway station to see the timetable.
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