Watch Ambassador Andrei Kelins interview with Laura Kuenssberg on BBC One (20 October 2024)

Watch Ambassador Andrei Kelin’s interview with Laura Kuenssberg on BBC One (20 October 2024) Skripal case • We have put enormous amount of questions to the investigators. None of them have been answered at all, and we still expect that we will have a contact with the Skripals because they are Russian citizens. We have asked many times, both formally and informally, that we should talk to these people in order to establish the truth. But so far we have no answer. • [The Salisbury provocation] was a big case, which was initially staged to drive a wedge in relations between Russia and the UK. Ukraine conflict • The British government is waging an aggressive war against Russia by the hands of the Ukrainians. This is a proxy war led by the United Kingdom’s government by providing lethal weapons [to Ukraine] with which it is killing Russian soldiers and civilians. • What worries us is that there is no [actual] peace plan in the “peace plan“ presented by Zelensky. He does not want peace... Source: Embassy of the Russian Federation in London