MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two Russians appeared on state television on Thursday, saying they had been wrongly accused by Britain of trying to murder a former Russian spy and his daughter in England and had been visiting Salisbury in March for tourism. The two men who appeared on Russia’s state-funded RT television station had some physical similarities to the men shown in British police images. They said they may have approached Sergei Skripal’s house by chance but did not know where it was located. They had stayed less than hour in Salisbury, they said, because of bad weather. Britain has said the two suspects were Russian military intelligence officers almost certainly acting on orders from high up in the Russian state.

Source: Huffington Post September 13, 2018 10:41 UTC