European Council President Donald Tusk said in Helsinki today that Russia was "very likely" behind the poisoning of former agent Sergei Skripal in Britain. "I express my full solidarity with British Prime Minister Theresa May following the barbaric attack, most likely instigated by Moscow," Tusk wrote on his Twitter account, on the sidelines of an official visit to the Finnish capital.
Tusk said he was "ready" to put the open diplomatic crisis between Britain and Moscow on the agenda for next week's European summit in Brussels.
Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Julia, 33, were found unconscious on March 4 on a bench in Salisbury, south-west England. They are still being treated in a "critical" condition.
The president of the European Council also called on US President Donald Trump to side with the European Union against Russia instead of launching a "trade war" against the EU, in a report on tariffs on US steel and aluminum imports imposed by the European Union. Washington. "To true friends, this should be obvious: in a context of spreading false information, interfering in our elections and neurotoxic attacks on people on our soil, the answer may not be transatlantic quarrels but transatlantic unity." he said.
