Maria Zakharova, of the Russian foreign ministry, said that Britain was treating the international media as “useful idiots” ALEXANDER SHCHERBAK/GETTY IMAGESA senior Kremlin official accused Britain of trading in fake news today after two Russian citizens were named as suspects in the Salisbury poisonings. Maria Zakharova, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, said it was time that the British handed over the results of six months of police investigations so Russia could help to solve the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. Writing on her official Facebook page, Ms Zakharova said that photos released by Neil Basu, the Met’s head of counterterrorism, yesterday showing the two suspects, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, arriving at Gatwick on March 2, appeared to have been doctored. Both photographs had identical time stamps, although the men are pictured separately with no one else in view. “Supposedly it…

Source: The Times September 06, 2018 10:52 UTC