“It’s quite obvious that if it were a military-grade nerve agent, people would have died on the spot,” he said. Mr Johnson said the trail of blame for the poisoning of Mr Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the city of Salisbury “leads inexorably to the Kremlin”. Mr Putin dismissed the British accusations, emphasising an attack on Mr Skripal would make no sense. Mr Johnson said it was “not the response of a country that really believed itself to be innocent”. Mr Johnson said Britain’s National Security Council will meet this week to discuss what further measures the country might take.

Source: Irish Independent March 18, 2018 22:07 UTC