{"id":376335,"date":"2018-09-06T18:07:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-kremlin-slams-uks-unacceptable-claim-on-spy-poisoning\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T18:07:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:07:44","slug":"presstv-kremlin-slams-uks-unacceptable-claim-on-spy-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-kremlin-slams-uks-unacceptable-claim-on-spy-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Kremlin slams UK&#8217;s &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; claim on spy poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Russian government has categorically rejected the UK&#8217;s &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; claim that Kremlin had been involved in a nerve agent attack in March on a former spy in Salisbury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday that &#8220;any sort of accusation regarding the Russian leadership is unacceptable&#8221; to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neither Russia&#8217;s top leadership nor those in the ranks below, nor any official representatives have anything to do with the events in Salisbury,&#8221; Peskov noted, reiterating the Kremlin&#8217;s position regarding the attack on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks came after British police named Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov as the main suspects in the attempted murder of the\u00a0former double agent.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova had earlier accused the UK of &#8220;manipulating information&#8221; concerning\u00a0the nerve agent attack and pursuing a &#8220;witch-hunt&#8221; against Russia,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/06\/573360\/Russia-Skripal-UK\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian government has categorically rejected the UK&#8217;s &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; claim that Kremlin had been involved in a nerve agent attack in March on a former spy in Salisbury. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday that &#8220;any sort of accusation regarding the Russian leadership is unacceptable&#8221; to Moscow. &#8220;Neither Russia&#8217;s top leadership nor those in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376335","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=376335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}