The two suspects in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal have nothing to do with Russian President Vladimir Putin or the government, a Kremlin spokesman said on Sunday. Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov have been identified by the UK Government as those being the attempted assassination of Skripal and his daughter Yulia by spraying Novichok on their front door in Salisbury in March. “The fact is that neither Petrov nor Boshirov have nothing to do with Putin, and the Kremlin of course,” Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying. Putin said on Wednesday that the two men were civilians and there was “nothing special and criminal” about them, Reuters reports. But the Kremlin’s denials ring hollow in light of revelations reported on Saturday that the two suspects did not exist before 2009, according to an examination of their passport records.

Source: Huffington Post September 16, 2018 16:52 UTC