Putin says two men accused by Britain for spy poisoning are just 'ordinary citizens'

[JonLP24]

Source: Washington Post


By Amie Ferris-Rotman
September 12 at 3:31 AM
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that his government knows the identity of the men accused by Britain for trying to murder a Russian former spy, and they were not criminals.

“There is nothing criminal about them. They are just ordinary civilians,” Putin told a session at an economic forum in Vladivostok broadcast on state TV.

Russia had previously said the names given to them by British prosecutors were meaningless.

The two men charged by British prosecutors for using a military grade nerve agent in Britain against Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were identified as Russian citizens.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/putin-says-two-men-accused-by-britain-for-spy-poisoning-are-just-ordinary-citizens/2018/09/12/ae4bb396-b65c-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html?utm_term=.44da9ea4ea7c

[Itchinjim]

1. "Ordinary citizens. Who happen to be trained assassins. But otherwise perfectly ordinary"

[Eugene]

2. We've investigated our people and we found nothing wrong.

Ridiculous, but Trump may just buy it.

[lagomorph777]

9. Trump doesn't believe any of his own lies about Putin's innocence.

He's a Putin employee, just like those two assassins.

[watoos]

3. Why post pro-Putin threads here?

[cstanleytech]

5. It's not a pro Putin post though it's simply news and

its well within LBN rules as news.
Now if it was a link to RT or its American counterpart (Fox News) I could understand the complaint but it is not.
Besides, the majority of us here are well aware that Putin is probably lying through his teeth and I say probably because there is a teeny tiny amount of a fraction of a chance that he is telling the truth just like there is a chance for me to win the Powerball.
Granted it's not much of a chance LOL but it's still possible.

[raging moderate]

4. I wonder what else is considered "ordinary" in Putin's Russia.

And just how "ordinary" are poisoning deaths in Putin's Russia?

[ret5hd]

6. I believe the preferred way to die in Russia is defenestration.

[lagomorph777]

10. There are multiple ways; Putin seems especially fond of exotic poisons that are traceable to Putin.

He likes to brag.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Just 'ordinary citizens' who flew into London, made 2 day trips to Salisbury and then flew out again

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/05/novichok-poisoning-what-we-know-so-far

Yeah, that's what ordinary citizens do.

[Eugene]

8. Salisbury novichok suspects say they were only visiting cathedral

Source: The Guardian

Salisbury novichok suspects say they were only visiting cathedral

British officials say Russian TV interview with men about Skripal poisoning is risible

Andrew Roth in Moscow and Vikram Dodd in London
Thu 13 Sep 2018 15.11 BST

The two men identified as suspects in the Salisbury nerve agent attack have appeared on Russia’s state-funded TV station RT, claiming they visited the “wonderful” English city as tourists to see its cathedral.

In their first interview since being charged in the UK with attempted murder, the men said they may have approached Sergei Skripal’s house by accident on 4 March, but denied that they were carrying any poison or that they had committed any crime.

“Our friends had been suggesting for a long time that we visit this wonderful town,” said a man who identified himself on air as Alexander Petrov.

He and the other man, Ruslan Boshirov, resembled men shown in stills from CCTV cameras released by British police investigating the attempted murder of Skripal, a Russian ex-spy who passed information to the British.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/russian-television-channel-rt-says-it-is-to-air-interview-with-skripal-salisbury-attack-suspects