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President Vladimir Putin has condemned Sergei Skripal, the former Russian double agent poisoned by a neurotoxic agent of the Soviet era in Britain, as a "fool" and "traitor" having betrayed Russia. "I see some of your colleagues arguing that Mr. Skripal was almost a human rights activist," Putin said at an energy forum in Moscow. "It was just a spy. A traitor to the fatherland. There is such a concept: a traitor to the motherland. He was one of those. Russia denies any involvement in the incident, but the UK and the Bellingcat investigative journalism site have produced a wealth of evidence linking two Russian intelligence agents to poisoning. Skripal and her daughter, Yulia, recovered from the incident, but a woman died after discovering a bottle of nerve agent in a park in Salisbury, England.
