Moscow’s ambassador has rejected the belief that Russia was behind the deadly Salisbury poisonings, saying it was ‘nonsense’. Andrei Kelin, Russia’s ambassador to the UK, chuckled at the notion the UK,

Speaking to the BBC, Andrei Kelin dismissed the allegation that GRU officers had carried out the Novichok attacks which failed to kill Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double agent for the British intelligence agencies and his daughter, Yulia in 2018.