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Russia Responds To The U.K.'s Claim That Two Russian Intelligence Offcers Were Responsible For The Skripal Poisoning

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Daily Mail: Russia says names of Novichok poisoning suspects 'mean nothing' to them as it continues to deny links to attempted assassination of former spy - despite 'killers' flying in from Moscow

* Prosecutors named the suspects as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov
* The pair were pictured at Heathrow leaving for Russia shortly after the attack
* A European warrant has now been issued for the arrests of Petrov and Boshirov
* Former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia were poisoned in March
* A police operation found they had been attacked using nerve agent Novichok

Russia said Wednesday it did not know the names of two Russians Britain has blamed for a nerve agent attack on a former spy and accused London of manipulating information.

'The names published by the media, like their photographs, mean nothing to us,' foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

British police identified Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov as the men who tried to kill Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with Novichok in March.

UK authorities said the names were likely to be aliases.

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