Russian TV On London Spy Poisoning: Ends Broadcast Warning ‘Traitors’

For the past few days, Russian state TV was particularly silent on the case of former Russian army colonel Mr Sergei Skripal (an alleged double spy), who has been in intensive care in a London hospital after being ‘poisoned’ with a ‘nerve agent’ (see our related coverage).

The UK press was quick to point the finger at Russia and make comparisons to another famous ‘spy poisoning’ case, that of Mr Aleksandr Litvinenko, who died in a London hospital a few years ago after drinking tea mixed with a radioactive substance.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Poisoned Russian spy Sergei Skripal was close to Christopher Steele who was linked to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpRussia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpRussia</a> dossier <a href="https://t.co/yB2q9hilG0">https://t.co/yB2q9hilG0</a> <a href="https://t.co/jIHE1FaemK">pic.twitter.com/jIHE1FaemK</a></p>&mdash; Kremlin Trolls CI (@KremlinTrolls) <a href="https://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls/status/971738040904376325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2018</a></blockquote>

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But now Russian TV shot back at the British.

Mr Kirill Kleimenov, who presents Channel One's flagship Vremya news programme (which is a mouthpiece for the Kremlin), made what many interpret as a veiled threat when he warned anyone wanting to become a double agent for Britain: "I don't wish death on anyone, but for purely educational purposes, I have a warning for anyone who dreams of such a career."

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"The profession of a traitor is one of the most dangerous in the world."

He then continued, stating that any true Russian shouldn’t be living in the UK in the first place: "traitors or those who simply hate their country in their free time, don't choose Britain as a place to live."

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Putin will have broken a huge rule of the spy game if he was behind the poisoning of ex-agent Sergei Skripal <a href="https://t.co/WN61yG5gke">https://t.co/WN61yG5gke</a> <a href="https://t.co/CiY4jj4GAk">pic.twitter.com/CiY4jj4GAk</a></p>&mdash; Business Insider (@businessinsider) <a href="https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/971741505001050112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2018</a></blockquote>

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"Something is wrong there. Maybe it's the climate, but in recent years there have been too many strange incidents with grave outcomes there."

Many believe that Russia is upping that nationalist talk to look tough just before the Presidential elections of 19 March whilst others say that shouting is Russia’s only option now that Mr Sergei Skripal can be linked to Mr Christopher Steele, the man behind the now infamous ‘Russia Dossier’ which supposedly holds compromising information on US President Trump.

Source:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43330498