Russia claims the alleged poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal was a plot to 'complicate' UK-Russia relations
The dramatic poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal was an operation by Western secret services to harm Putin’s election campaign. This is according to a former KGB agent.
It would be recalled that master spy Yuri Lyubimov headed the KGB’s UK desk. This was after being thrown out of London in the 1960s for seeking to recruit a female Foreign Office coding clerk.
He dismissed claims that Moscow was behind the Salisbury poisoning of Skripal and his daughter Yulia. He also claims Boris Johnson’s reaction to the incident shows it is a plot against Russia.
Hear Lyubimov:
“It is absurd to kill a person who had been swapped.
“If he was to carry any secrets on him, he could have been killed here (in Moscow) - calmly, quietly - to inject him with a dose and no-one would have ever heard of it.
“Secondly, and this is the main moment: who benefits from it?
“You’ve got to be an idiot to suddenly do this right before our presidential elections and in the middle of an horrendous anti-Russian campaign.”
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