Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko, right, shakes hands with Novichok poisoning victim Charlie Rowley, inside the Russian Embassy in London, where they met for talks Saturday April 6, 2019. Charlie Rowley told the Sunday Mirror that Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko seemed “genuinely concerned” when the two met Saturday but he thinks he was fed “Russian propaganda” during their meeting at the Russian Embassy in London. British authorities say the bottle contained traces of Novichok, the nerve agent that poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury a few months earlier. The nerve agent poisoning on British soil ignited a diplomatic confrontation in which hundreds of envoys were expelled by both Russia and Western nations. A tweet from the Russian ambassador’s account Sunday said: “Met with Charlie Rowley to discuss last year’s events in #Salisbury and #Amesbury.

Source: Washington Post April 07, 2019 17:36 UTC