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🎙 Watch Ambassador Andrei Kelin's interview with Sky News international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn

Key talking points:

• This so-called public investigation [the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry report] has simply reconfirmed an earlier [Western] version of what has happened. We are still very much convinced that this [incident in Salisbury] was a carefully staged provocation by British secret services.

• We have suggested many times to the British government that we should cooperate on this issue — the chemical incident in Salisbury — and investigate it together to understand what happened. But our proposals were all rejected.

• The Ukraine conflict will end tomorrow if Ukrainian forces leave Donbass [...] Russia is not going to leave Ukraine. We cannot leave Russian-speaking people at the mercy of the Nazi regime in Kiev.

• If the UK and other European governments do not create too many obstacles [to the negotiation process], we will try to achieve the result [with regard to the Ukraine settlement]. It's going to be difficult [...] It is a serious work. But this will solve the main problem — the existential security threat to the Russian Federation.

• I'm worried about the current mood in political circles in the United Kingdom. They are trying to portray Russia as the main threat and as an adversary, which is not the case. We do not pose a threat to the UK.

• If Europe would like to wage a war against Russia, as has happened many times in our history, then we are prepared.

Watch the interview on our YouTube channel

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🎙 Watch Ambassador Andrei Kelin's interview with Sky News international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn

Key talking points:

• This so-called public investigation [the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry report] has simply reconfirmed an earlier [Western] version of what has happened. We are still very much convinced that this [incident in Salisbury] was a carefully staged provocation by British secret services.

• We have suggested many times to the British government that we should cooperate on this issue — the chemical incident in Salisbury — and investigate it together to understand what happened. But our proposals were all rejected.

• The Ukraine conflict will end tomorrow if Ukrainian forces leave Donbass [...] Russia is not going to leave Ukraine. We cannot leave Russian-speaking people at the mercy of the Nazi regime in Kiev.

• If the UK and other European governments do not create too many obstacles [to the negotiation process], we will try to achieve the result [with regard to the Ukraine settlement]. It's going to be difficult [...] It is a serious work. But this will solve the main problem — the existential security threat to the Russian Federation.

• I'm worried about the current mood in political circles in the United Kingdom. They are trying to portray Russia as the main threat and as an adversary, which is not the case. We do not pose a threat to the UK.

• If Europe would like to wage a war against Russia, as has happened many times in our history, then we are prepared.

Watch the interview on our YouTube channel

BY Russian Embassy to the UK