The Kremlin has denounced new U.S. sanctions against Russia over the poisoning of a former spy in Britain as ‘lynch law’ and an attempt to ‘demonise Russia’.
The U.S. State Department said yesterday that they had determined that Russia used the Novichok nerve agent to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and that sanctions would follow later this month.
In response, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Thursday that ‘the restrictions are absolutely unlawful and don’t conform to international law.’ Read more at Daily Mail.
{Matzav.com}
