The latest developments in the UK are just a pretext for implementing a "long-overdue provocation against Russia." This was stated by the Russian ambassador in London, Anatoly Antonov.

"Events in the UK were just a pretext to implement a long-conceived provocation against the Russian Federation. We have carefully looked at who recently went to the US Embassy in Moscow. What kind of people are these people from the crisis center, from the British department of the State Department. All these provocations were prepared for more than three weeks, "the diplomat said on the air of the" Fifth "TV channel.

March 4 in the British Salisbury, an attempt was made on the British agent Sergei Skripal. On March 12, under suspicious circumstances, the Russian manager Nikolai Glushkov died in London. On March 30, British police without an explanation of the reasons began to search the plane of Aeroflot.

Reference: https://iz.ru/726864/2018-04-01/poso...i-provokatciei