British Prime Minister Theresa May said in her statement before the parliament on Wednesday that the country's investigative authorities found "sufficient evidence" for the indictment of two Russian nationals, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, in the case of the poisoning of Sergey Skripal and his daughter earlier in March. The investigation concluded by affirming the earlier government's assessment that Moscow is to be held responsible for the attack, she added.
"We were right to say in March that the Russian state was responsible," May said, claiming that Petrov and Boshirov belong to Russian military intelligence service - the Main Intelligence Directorate, sometimes abbreviated as GRU. The prime minister stressed that Russia was the only one who had the technical means, operational experience and the motive to carry out the attack in Salisbury. Its response to the allegations consisted of "obfuscation and lies," May stated.
Earlier in the day, UK prosecutors have charged the abovementioned Russian nationals of attempted murder of former double agent Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury earlier this year. Russian Foreign Ministry responded that the names of the individuals indicted "don't mean anything" to Moscow as of now.
