The official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs of great Britain explained why the Ministry has deleted a message on Twitter about the fact that the substance that had poisoned Sergei Skripal, " made in Russia ".

He said that the tweet did not reflect the words of the British Ambassador in Russia Laurie Bristow.

"The briefing by the British Embassy in the Russian capital on March 22 was transmitted in real time @UKinRussia, and then spread to the @foreignoffice to explain the maximum wide audience what has happened in Salisbury. One of the tweets was cut and did not give the exact words of our Ambassador. We erased this tweet ",
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