Medvedev urged Britain to be restrained in evaluations of the case Skripale

Great Britain and other states should be restrained in their assessments on the “Skripalei case,” since these estimates do not correspond to reality, said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

"We believe that everyone should be restrained in assessments. Estimates that are given by a number of countries, firstly, do not correspond to reality, including the English position on a well-known case. And, secondly, they don’t exactly bring us closer to the future, ”Medvedev said in an interview with Euronews, answering a question about European ridicule at the arguments of Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, whom London suspects of poisoning ex-Colonel Sergei GRIPAL and his daughter Julia.
The Russian prime minister stressed that such actions lead to a deterioration in international cooperation, as was the case during the USSR.
“You see, any assessments of such an order are definitely not conducive to international cooperation. I recall the Soviet period. The Soviet Union also put labels on it, branded the international capital system, said that it separates us, but it did not lead to anything good,” Medvedev said .
He also expressed the opinion that such assessments and sanctions, which follow them, lead to a dead end and occur in favor of political conjuncture.
"We understand why this is happening. In most cases, such assessments and such sanctions are not given to punish someone, make someone bad, show international position. No! They are given for other reasons - they are given to please the domestic political conjuncture ", - said Medvedev.
On March 4, the former GRU officer Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury, which provoked a major international scandal. In London, they said that Russia was involved in the incident, Moscow categorically denies this.
Russia has repeatedly offered to conduct a joint investigation of the incident, but London ignored the initiative and denied access to the Squeakers. Also, the Foreign Ministry caught the British Prime Minister Teresa May in a lie. So, she argued that the poison was made in Russia. However, in the laboratory of Porton Down, this is denied.
Later, London presented photographs of two “suspects in Skripale’s poisoning,” claiming that they were two GRU officers, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Moscow declared that these names of Russia “do not say anything” and again called on Britain to move from accusations and manipulations to cooperation.