The Russian Embassy in Britain has commented on what it described as an “unexpected discovery” made by Swiss experts during a probe into last month's alleged poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Britain's Salisbury.
When asked about a new information on Swiss experts' findings related to the Salisbury incident, a press officer of the Russian Embassy in London said that “according to the Swiss Federal Institute for NBC-protection in Spiez, its experts received samples collected in Salisbury by the OPCW [Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons] specialists and finished testing them on 27 March.”
“The experts of the Institute discovered traces of toxic chemical called “BZ” and its precursors. It is a Schedule 2 substance under the Chemical Weapons Convention,” the officer said.
He recalled that “BZ” is a chemical agent, used to temporary incapacitate people due to its psychotoxic effect which is reached in 30-60 minutes after the agent's application of the agent and lasts up to four days.
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“According to the information the Russian Federation possesses, this agent was used in the armed forces of the USA, United Kingdom and several others NATO member states. No stocks of such substance ever existed either in the Soviet Union or in the Russian Federation,” the officer pointed out.
He said that the Swiss experts also…
