Russian President Vladimir Putin called the former GRU officer Sergei Skripal a traitor and a scumbag and compared espionage with prostitution. Earlier, President Putin, in more restrained terms commented on the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter and categorically rejected the involvement of Kremlin.
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“I see that some of your colleagues are pushing the theory that Mr Skripal is almost some kind of human rights activist. He’s just a spy. A traitor to the Motherland.
“Imagine: suddenly you have a person who is betraying his country. How do you react to him? Anyone here is a seated representative of any country? He’s just a scum – that’s all,” the Russian president added. Spying, like prostitution, is one of the most degrading professions in the world,” the president continued.
Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were found slumped on a park bench in the English city on 4 March. Britain says Russian intelligence officers poisoned them with Novichok. Putin, a former intelligence officer, has angrily decried “traitors” before. He has said he cannot forgive disloyalty and “traitors will kick the bucket”. Of Skripal, he said on Wednesday: “He’s simply a scumbag, that’s all.”
Following the poisoning of the Skripals, a woman died after she came into contact with the poison, which her partner found in a discarded perfume bottle, according to British police. The Novichok used was one of a number of nerve agents developed in the USSR.
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