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Russia Foreign Ministry: Britain May Be Behind Attack on Skripal's Daughter

by Reuters

   MOSCOW, RUSSIA --

   A Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday that Britain may
   be behind a chemical attack on Yulia Skripal, daughter of former
   Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

   "Logic suggests that there are only two possible things," Vladimir
   Yermakov, head of the ministry's non-proliferation and arms control
   department, told a meeting with foreign ambassadors based in Moscow.

   "Either the British authorities are not able to provide protection from
   such a, let's say, terrorist attack on their soil, or they, whether
   directly or indirectly, I am not accusing anyone, have orchestrated an
   attack on a Russian citizen", Yermakov said.