LOOK. ‘Experts’ on Russian state TV grinningly deny that Russia is behind the poisoning of the Ukrainian intelligence chief’s wife | War Ukraine and Russia

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A panel of ‘experts’ has grinningly denied on the Russian state channel Russia-1 that Moscow had anything to do with the poisoning of Marianna Budanova, the wife of the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence service, Kyril Budanov. ‘Experts’ can be taken literally here, because the speakers included Andrei Lugovoi, the man wanted by the British police for the poisoning of Russian dissident Aleksandr Litvinenko.


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It was sources within the Ukrainian intelligence service who announced the news of Budanova’s poisoning this week. The woman – like some of her husband’s employees – is said to have heavy metals in her body and is in hospital. “The presence of those substances may indicate a deliberate attempt to poison her,” was the preliminary conclusion.

The most obvious person responsible is Russia, which often indulges in poisoning those who think differently. However, this was explicitly denied on Russian state television. With a barely suppressable grin.

Andrey Lugovoy (left) and presenter Olga Skabejeva (right) on the Russian state channel Russia-1. © RV

“I have to tell you something about Budanov,” says Andrei Lugovoy at one point, after which presenter Olga Skabejeva grins: “About heavy metals. How does it work?”

According to Lugovoy, Budanova’s poisoning was completely fabricated. After all, the couple lives in a heavily secured bunker. “And why was his wife affected and not him? Maybe he lets her taste everything before he eats himself,” MP Yevgeny Popov responds scornfully, much to the amusement of the presenter and other guests in the studio.

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If Russia really wanted to get rid of Budanov, Lugovoy said it would do so with high-tech weapons “and not in such a primitive way.”

“But purely theoretical: how does it work,” Skabejeva replies. “If something is smuggled in, what does that look like? Did she put something in her tea and drink it?” To which Lugovoy replies: “There is no other way to poison food or drink than to put something in it, secretly or otherwise.”

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