Moscow has incontrovertible evidence that contradicts the British government's allegations in the much-maligned case of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday.
Speaking at a meeting of Russia's Foreign and Defense Policy Council, Lavrov said that samples taken by the Swiss Center for Chemical Weapons Analysis by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the city of Spitz on Scripal the British government.
According to Lavrov, the samples contained elements of the toxic chemical element BZ, which is one of the second-class chemical weapons. BZ is a neuroparalytic element that temporarily affects the body. The psychotoxic effect is achieved after half an hour and lasts for four days. The recipe was in the US, British and other NATO armies. In the USSR and Russia, similar chemical elements were not processed.
According to the Russian Foreign Minister, Russia now, after this development, addresses the OACHO with the question why it did not mention this information from the Swiss laboratory in the city of Spitz in the conclusions of its experts.
The resurrection of the Skripals shows in relief that they were affected by an element with a chemical formula closer to that reported by experts from the Swiss laboratory. If they had been exposed to the chemical element claimed by the British government, they would most likely have died, they explain in Moscow.
