MOSCOW. Sept 14 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has dismissed British media reports about a Russian diplomat at the embassy in Rome who was allegedly recruited by the British intelligence and disclosed the real names of people involved in the attempt to murder Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
"In recent days, British media exposed another episode of 'the spy series'. It tells another story: a Russian defector, a former employee of the Russian embassy in Rome codenamed Apollo was recruited by the British intelligence and allegedly gave away actual names of those who poisoned the Skripals," Zakharova said in reply to a question from the press.
"The Russian side has no information about this mysterious character. No one has run away from our embassy in Rome," she said.
Zakharova noted that "such a discovery of an agent is clearly contrary to the practices of British secret services". The amount of "British disinformation on the Skripals case is far too much now and the low-grade level of 'fake news' is not worth commenting," she said.