UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson directly blames Putin for poisoning

Prime Minister Theresa May has earlier said it's "highly likely" the Kremlin is responsible for the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
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British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says it's "overwhelmingly likely" Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the use of a nerve agent against a former spy in the English city of Salisbury.

But Johnson went a step further and blamed Putin directly today.

He said "our quarrel is with Putin's Kremlin, and with his decision, and we think it overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the UK, on the streets of Europe, for the first time since the Second World War."

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