Moscow’s suggestion that Sweden may have produced a deadly nerve agent used to poison a former Russian spy in Britain was just speculation and not an accusation, Russia’s ambassador to Sweden said Tuesday. Tatarintsev said the comment should not be construed as an accusation. “It was just a comment, a guess, not an official explanation,” Tatarintsev told daily Expressen in a video interview after meeting the foreign ministry’s director general for political affairs, Anna Karin Enestrom. “Forcefully reject unacceptable and unfounded allegation by Russian MFA spokesperson that nerve agent used in Salisbury might originate in Sweden. Russia should answer UK questions instead,” she wrote on Saturday.

Source: The Guardian March 20, 2018 15:00 UTC