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LONDON, Mar 19 - RIA Novosti. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, speaking of the case of Sergei Skripal, again expressed his unflattering opinion about Russia.

"This is a classic Russian strategy - to try to hide the needle of truth in a haystack of lies and deliberate obfuscation," he told journalists in Brussels. The live broadcast of the speech was conducted by the website of the European Commission.

Johnson believes that Russian denials of the accusations sound more and more absurd: "They say that they never produced (Nov.-Ed.), They say that they produced it, its new reserves were destroyed. that they produced it and all stocks were destroyed, but something was exported to Sweden, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the United States or even the UK. "

On Monday, experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will arrive in the UK. They will investigate the samples of the poison. Verification of the results of the study is expected to take at least two weeks.

"The Case of Violin"

The words about a needle in a haystack - not the first sharp statement of Johnson about Russia lately. Last week, he accused Putin of organizing the poisoning of Skripal.

Ex-GRU officer Sergei Skripal was granted asylum in the UK after an exchange of spies accused of espionage between Moscow and Washington in 2010.

On the fourth of March, Skripal and his daughter Julia were found unconscious in Salisbury. According to the police, they were poisoned with the nerve agent "Novice" allegedly produced in Russia.

Moscow rejected any involvement in the poisoning. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed that Russia wanted to gain access to the investigation materials, but London refused.

Vladimir Putin, in turn, said that Russia has no chemical weapons - it was destroyed under the supervision of international observers. He also said that Moscow is ready to cooperate in the investigation, but for this there must be interest on the other hand.

Maria Zakharova, the official spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, believes that "the most likely source of the chemical's origin is those countries that have been conducting intensive research on substances from the project" Beginner "since the late 1990s, including to the present. Great Britain, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Sweden, "about the United States, too, we must raise the issue."

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