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| Britain vows to respond ‘robustly’ if evidence emerges implying Russia was behind ex-spy's illness | Britain vows to respond ‘robustly’ if evidence emerges implying Russia was behind ex-spy's illness |
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| Boris Johnson conceded it was “too early to speculate” over the illness of Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal. The foreign secretary did though vow to respond ‘robustly’ if evidence emerges of Russian involvement. | Boris Johnson conceded it was “too early to speculate” over the illness of Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal. The foreign secretary did though vow to respond ‘robustly’ if evidence emerges of Russian involvement. |
| Skripal, 66, and his daughter, Yulia, 33, were found slumped on a shopping center bench in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on Sunday. | |
| UK police are currently attempting to work out which, if any, “unknown substance” harmed the pair, who remain in a critical but stable condition. At least one of the emergency service workers remains in hospital after dealing with the incident. | UK police are currently attempting to work out which, if any, “unknown substance” harmed the pair, who remain in a critical but stable condition. At least one of the emergency service workers remains in hospital after dealing with the incident. |
| Despite stressing that it was “wrong to prejudge the investigation,” Johnson warned that if MPs’ “suspicions prove to be well founded, then this government will take whatever measures we deem necessary to protect the lives of the people in this country, our values and our freedoms.” | |
| “I am not now pointing fingers,” Johnson added, “because we cannot point fingers, I say to governments around the world that no attempt to take innocent life on UK soil will go either unsanctioned or unpunished.” | |
| The Russian embassy in the UK has denied that any national special services were involved in the incident, stating that the case was “demonizing” the country. | |
| “The situation that is developing around the hospitalization of [Sergei] Skripal and his companion on March 4, as described by the British media, causes serious concern,” the embassy’s press secretary said in a statement. | |
| Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “We don’t possess any information about what could have been the cause [of Skripal’s illness], and what this could be connected to.” He added that Russia had no contact with the UK over the incident, but that “Moscow is always open to cooperation.” | |
| READ MORE: Russian ex-double agent who spied for UK exposed to unknown substance, ‘critically ill’– report | |
| Skripal worked as a double agent for the UK intelligence agency MI6 and was jailed in Russia in 2006 for spying for Britain, having passed on the names of undercover Russian intelligence agents. Russia released four spies in exchange for 10 Russian agents. | |
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