Russian Diplomats Take to Social Media to Spread Disinformation About Skripal Poisoners
After the U.K. named two alleged Russian intelligence agents as the poisoners of Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal, Moscow initially shrugged its shoulders. The names of the agents identified by British authorities “do not mean anything to us,” the Foreign Ministry said according to the RIA news agency.
But when Prime Minister Theresa May claimed the attempted killings were almost certainly signed off “at a senior level” of the Russian state, diplomats began engaging in new attempts on social media to ridicule, discredit and sow doubt about Russia’s involvement in the attack.
In one tweet posted Thursday morning, the Russian Embassy in the U.K. contrasted a photo released by British police, of the two alleged GRU agents walking down a U.K. street, with one of investigators in HAZMAT suits. “Men ‘working with the most deadly military grade toxin of high purity,’” read the tweet. “How many differences can you spot?”
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