Oh come on, it's so blatant! Everybody knows that it was a poisoned fish!
RB: Why is it that nobody talks about any of this?
RB: For some reason, nobody talks about this fact.
I agree, Ruslan.
Everybody saw Viktoria Skripal's angry mother-in-law poisoning Skripal's food at the restaurant. They were even photos!
AP: For some reason, they don't show this.
Now, guys, just to make it all clear, you didn't - by any chance - bring deadly nerve agent to the UK and poison Skripals, did you?
RB: No.
AP: It's absurd.
See? The whole world needs to see that these two guys are innocent! They said so themselves! These two suspected Russian assassins said that they didn't do it on a TV channel funded by the Russian government.
russia today btw
also isn't it banned from facepunch?
I think posting it as news is a no no but posting the article to poke fun at is fine. Nobody is going to buy this bullshit.
I think the rule is that if we can get secondary sources, we should use them too, and shouldn't be using RT to claim something happened, but this is news and I see nothing dubious about Russia bringing out two assassins to deny being Russian assassins by the government-run 'news site' who hired the assassins.
They definitely have shit-eating expressions throughout the whole interview, as it seems.
Next they're going to say everyone just had a perfectly natural heart attack.
Two new members of our parliament in the making, folks. Jesus, it's Litvinenko's case all over again. It's literally the same shit. Poisoning -> getting caught -> murderer appears on TV -> becomes a member of parliament. It's just that
the last step is missing yet.
Even if their story wasn't obvious bullshit, the concept that anyone would fly all the way from Russia for the weekend just to spend a few hours in Salisbury is fucking absurd.
The existence of the article is the story, rather than the contents of the article itself. I think it's definitely newsworthy seeing Russian state TV putting on a little puppet show to proclaim their innocence in this lol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/putin-says-two-men-accused-by-britain-for-spy-poisoning-are-just-ordinary-citizens/2018/09/12/ae4bb396-b65c-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.657fb6d3f01d
He added with a smirk: “I hope they will soon appear and tell their own story.”
Russia Today is state run media. Putin's taking the piss.
Not really much point arguing the facts, this is a country that invaded and stole part of its neighbour and was just like "woah what the heck how did that happen!"
Yeah... Salisbury sucks. (Not really.) II think it's actually worse, because didn't they say they left after an hour due to it being snowy? They're Russians, for fuck's sake, and snow in Britain is never all that bad.
this is the most suspicious interview I've read in a long time lmao
The BBC's timeline does a great job of showing how crap tourists they are.
At around 15:00 GMT on Friday 2 March, the two men arrived at Gatwick Airport
Police say they travelled to London Victoria at 17:40 GMT, and were at Waterloo Station between 18:00 and 19:00 GMT before travelling to their London hotel
At 11:45 GMT on Saturday 3 March, they took a train from Waterloo Station to Salisbury
CCTV footage shows the men in Salisbury around 14:25 GMT
The men say they spent less than an hour in Salisbury, deciding against seeing Stonehenge, Old Sarum and Salisbury Cathedral because of "muddy slush everywhere"
CCTV footage shows the men taking a train back to London at 16:11 GMT
On Sunday 4 March, CCTV cameras filmed the men arriving at Salisbury train station at 11:48 GMT
Police say they were then seen on CCTV near the home of Sergei Skripal at 11:58 GMT
The men say they then visited Salisbury Cathedral
CCTV footage shows the men leaving Salisbury station at 13:50 GMT
At 19:28 GMT, the men were at Heathrow Airport for an Aeroflot flight to Moscow
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45512471
They made four 90+ minute train journeys over the course of two days for a total of 6 hours of travel time just to visit Salisbury Cathedral.
That's false because I was literally there on the day it happened. As in, literally next door to the place. It had been snowy the week before, but it was just wet from all the snow melting. Was fine down there.
Sounds about right. It snowed near me in Stevenage in March too, but it wasn't very bad at all and I can't imagine it would even have been difficult to navigate 3x that bad. It's rarely cool enough in Britain for long enough to get icy roads, especially in March. It was unusually snowy at the beginning of this year, but not in March. Well, they're clearly lying out their arses already, so not surprising.
Oh no, we got it proper hard in Salisbury. About 6 inches or so and wouldn't stop. The issue is, that was a few days ago. On the day, it wasn't bad at all and I don't recall any snow at all.
Aside from the blatant flimsiness of their cover story, I feel like this is an attempt to celebritize these two tools.
Extraordinary rendition time for those two? I think so.
SIMONYAN: Do you work for the GRU?
PETROV: And you, do you?
SIMONYAN: Me? No, I don’t, and you?
PETROV: I don’t.
BOSHIROV: Me neither.
