MOSCOW. March 15 (Interfax) - In handling the poisoning of former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, London is trying to reduce everything to political rhetoric and Russophobia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"They are trying to reduce all of this to political rhetoric and Russophobia in the hope that, just as in some other instances, the Western world will toe the line and snap a salute, especially considering that the United States has said it fully supports the United Kingdom's position," Lavrov said in an interview with Vietnamese and Japanese media outlets.