Britain plays Putin at the OPCW

Published April 4, 2018 10:14pm ET



On Wednesday, in another amusing rebuke to Russian diplomatic antics, Britain won an important vote at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Specifically, the United Kingdom defeated a Russian motion calling on Britain to conduct a joint British-Russian investigation into the March 4 nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. The Skripals were poisoned in a small British town by Russian intelligence officers acting under orders from Russian President Vladimir Putin. And while the Russians deny their involvement in the Skripal attack, they know that the U.K. knows that they are responsible.

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