{"id":352473,"date":"2018-03-16T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/putin-likely-ordered-russian-spys-poisoning\/"},"modified":"2018-03-16T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:39:00","slug":"putin-likely-ordered-russian-spys-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/putin-likely-ordered-russian-spys-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin likely ordered Russian spy\u2019s poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson claims it is \u201coverwhelmingly likely\u201d that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered a nerve agent attack against a former Russian spy in southern England.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;We have nothing against the Russians themselves. There is to be no Russophobia as a result of what is happening,&#8221; Johnson told reporters during a museum visit in west London on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;Our quarrel is with Putin&#8217;s Kremlin, and with his decision \u2013 and we think it overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision \u2013 to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the UK, on the streets of Europe for the first time since the Second World War,&#8221; Johnson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Britain&#8217;s top diplomat said a day earlier that the UK would allow for an independent international examination of the nerve agent.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure class=\"image\" style=\"display:inline-block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"312\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20180316\/d969f980-5082-4a27-88c2-52d2e79be4de.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>Britain&#8217;s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson addresses the media during a visit to a Battle of Britain bunker in Uxbridge, west London on March 16,&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/16\/555664\/Boris-Johnson-nerve-agent-attack-Vladimir-Putin-Sergei-Skripal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson claims it is \u201coverwhelmingly likely\u201d that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered a nerve agent attack against a former Russian spy in southern England. &#8220;We have nothing against the Russians themselves. There is to be no Russophobia as a result of what is happening,&#8221; Johnson told reporters during a museum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}