Bloomberg: UK says ‘all roads lead to Russia’ in poisoned spy case

Published April 5, 2018 at 4:53 pm

A protective forensics tent covers a bench in a park at The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury, southern England on March 19, 2018, as investigations in connection with an apparent nerve agent attack in the city on March 4 continue. The European Union offered "unqualified solidarity" with Britain on March 19 over a nerve agent attack blamed on Russia, as international weapons experts visited to take a sample of the chemical for testing. Sergei Skripal, a former Russian officer who sold secrets to Britain and moved there in a 2010 spy swap, remains in critical condition along with his daughter, Yulia, after they were found unconscious on a park bench on March 4. / AFP PHOTO / Ben STANSALL

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The U.K. said all evidence points to Russia in the case of the former spy poisoned in southern England, in an effort to regain the upper hand in the face of a Russian blitz to discredit its investigation.

“There is no doubt that we have found nerve agent, that nerve agent has been identified to have been manufactured, we believe in Russia, and we believe that the nerve agent, the Novichok type of nerve agent is only capable of being produced by a nation state,” Security Minister Ben Wallace said on April 5 in a BBC radio interview. “We can say that all roads lead to Russia, that we are beyond reasonable doubt that the Russian state is behind this.”