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The Kremlin said today that it would be "absurd" to suggest that Russia was implicated in the death of a British woman exposed to Novichok's neurotoxic agent: " We do not know that Russia has been mentioned or badociated with that ". Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "We consider that, in any case, it would be utterly absurd". This is the Kremlin's first reaction to the poisoning of two British citizens exposed to Novichok near Salisbury in England, where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned in March [19659002ThisintoxicationprovokedadiplomatictensionbetweenLondonandMoscowPeskovaddedthat"weregretofcoursethedeathoftheBritishcitizen"DawnSturgessandCharlieRowleywererushedtothehospitallastweekendofahouseinthetownofAmesburyabout12kilometersfromSalisburyandwerediscoveredinNovichok
The police announced yesterday the death of Sturgess. is "deeply concerned by the persistent appearance of these toxic substances on British territory", which "presents a danger not only to the British but to all Europeans," Peskov said.
Russia denied any involvement in the poisoning of Skripal and her daughter Yulia with a nerve agent that was developed in the Soviet Union. Both Skripals have now been released from the hospital and live in a secret place.
Putin said that if a military-grade nerve agent had been used against them, the victims would be dead.
Peskov today denied a suggestion by the representative of Russia to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Alexander Shulgin that the incident appeared to be designed to hinder preparations for a meeting between Putin and US President Donald Trump in Helsinki this month.
"This has nothing to do with the summit," said Peskov: "It's more the problem of Britain and the problem how much Britain is interested in a real investigation. . "
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