Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today accused London of "falsifying" the findings of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) investigation into the Skripal case and using them to blame Russia.
"Politicians like Boris Johnson are once again trying to falsify reality by claiming that the OACHO findings validate all of Britain's positions without exception," Lavrov told a news conference.
"This is another extreme of this policy, we are used to it," Lavrov continued.
"OACHO only does that to confirm the composition of the chemical used against Sergei Skripal and his daughter, not its origin," he added.
The OAXO said Thursday that laboratory tests "confirm what the United Kingdom has discovered about the identity of the toxic chemical used in Salisbury" to poison former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
The chemical was "very pure," the agency said, without attributing responsibility to the case, in which London blames Moscow, which has declared its innocence.
Based on these findings, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Thursday that there could be "no doubt as to what was used and there is no alternative explanation for the perpetrator" of the March 4 attack in England.
"Only Russia has the means, the motivation and the experience on the issue," he said.
Russia, for its part, has said it will not "believe" any findings in the Skripal case as long as "its experts do not have access to the samples of the analyzes referred to in the OACHO expertise."
