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British police have released a video footage of CCTV showing two suspected Russian intelligence agents who were heading to Sergei Skripal's home on the day of the former spy poisoning by a nerve agent.
The clips show the Russians, known as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, appearing to take pictures upon their arrival in Salisbury, England, on 4 March.
Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were found unconscious on a park bench the same afternoon.
British police believe they have been poisoned by a Soviet-era neurotoxic agent called Novichok, designed by Moscow specifically to carry out assassinations abroad.
Russia denies that the two men are members of the GRU military intelligence service.
He also indicates that the Novichok could have come from a British laboratory or from another laboratory.
Nick Bailey, a British police officer who raided Skripal's home after the discovery of father and daughter, was also exposed to the nerve agent and spent weeks in the hospital.
In an interview given yesterday to the BBC Panorama program, Bailey said that he knew something was wrong when his "students were like pin bites" and that he became "quite sweaty and burning".
"I knew what the other two (the Skripals) had been or how much they had been affected, and I was petrified," Bailey said.
He said the substance could have killed "thousands" of people.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday reiterated Russia's denial and said that Britain had refused Moscow's offer to participate in the investigation.
"We have no information about the exact nature of this substance, we do not have information on the amount, on the person who poisoned, on what happened to him, on what has happened in general, "Peskov told reporters.
The Skripals survived, but a local woman, Dawn Sturgess, died after picking up a scrap bottle of perfume that, according to police, was allegedly used to carry out the attack.
Dean Haydon, senior counterterrorism coordinator, said the investigators were trying to determine what happened to the perfume bottle between March 4 and June 27, the day it was discovered.
"We remain as determined as ever to identify and bring to justice all those responsible for the irresponsible acts that caused the disease to four people and tragically saw Dawn Sturgess lose their lives," Haydon said in a statement last night.
According to the police, one of the new CCTV clips shows the two suspects who are walking near Skripal's home address "just before the detectives think the nerve agent was placed on the door handle" .
The detectives released the images as part of a call for witnesses.
The investigators believe that the two people sprayed Novichok from the handle of the main door of Skripal's house before throwing the perfume bottle into the street.
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