LONDON — A British man whose girlfriend died after they were both poisoned by a nerve agent thought to have been discarded by Russian intelligence officers in England went looking for answers at the Russian Embassy in London this weekend, asking, “Why did your country kill my girlfriend?”The startling meeting — which at times seemed more like a friendly tour of the embassy in South Kensington, an affluent area in West London, than an inquisition of a representative of the government potentially responsible for the death of his girlfriend, Dawn Sturgess, in July — left more questions than answers. The meeting between the man, Charlie Rowley, and Russia’s ambassador to Britain, Alexander V. Yakovenko, on Saturday was partly arranged by The Sunday Mirror, a British tabloid. Mr. Rowley met with Russia’s envoy nine months after he and Ms. Sturgess were poisoned. The nerve agent was originally used to target a former Russian spy, Sergei V. Skripal, in March 2018, but Mr. Skripal’s daughter and a police officer were also sickened. The poisoning was at the center of a diplomatic split between Britain and Russia, leading both countries to tit-for-tat expulsions of each others’ diplomats.

Source: New York Times April 07, 2019 14:30 UTC