US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis lands in Kabul on March 13, 2018 on an unannounced trip to Afghanistan. (Reuters pic)
WASHINGTON: Russia’s poisoning of a former spy in Britain is part of a strategy of conducting operations, and then denying responsibility for them, that is designed to divide the West, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday.
A day after Washington announced it was expelling 60 Russians in a show of support for Britain, Mattis said President Vladimir Putin’s denials of responsibility for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal in southern England could not be taken seriously.
And he said it carried echoes of …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
