Theresa May challenged President Putin to explain how a powerful Russian nerve agent came to be used in an assassination attempt on British soil
British prime minister, Theresa May, has told parliament that the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia were attacked in Salisbury last week with novichok, a chemical weapon up to eight times more powerful than the notorious VX nerve agent.
She has also set a deadline of midnight today for Russia to explain what really happened, adding: “Should there be no credible response, we will conclude that this action amounts to an unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom.”
Ominously, Mrs May warned that she was ready to take “much more extensive measures” against Russia than after incidents including the murder of Alexander Litvenenko in 2006.
Weighing in, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said: “The attack was reckless, indiscriminate and irresponsible . . . We stand by our closest ally and the special relationship we have.”
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