Among the now 25 stories the Russians are telling about the poisoning of the Skripals is one that seems to have some traction. The Russians are saying the Skripals were detained, taken underground, and the whole story of poisoning concocted to cover the removal. They were, by this account, never poisoned.
In a BBC story yesterday, Yulia Skripal reminds everyone that she speaks for herself and the Russians do not, including at least one relative in Russia, who seem to support the story the Russians are trying to spin. They have managed to take a phone call between Yulia and her relative as “proof” that she was never poisoned, when she more than likely wanted her relatives to know that she was not dead, or suffering too many ill effects from her experience. “The Russian embassy said the statement ‘only strengthens suspicions that we are dealing with a forcible isolation of the Russian citizen’ and called on UK authorities to ‘urgently provide tangible evidence’ that Ms Skripal was not deprived of her freedom.” If she is being protected it is more likely that she wants to avoid giving them a second chance, after missing the first time.
You have to admire the imagination of the Russian intelligence services that create these fantasies, then publish stories about them in their own news outlets, and use their government channels to push the narratives. It is all part of their Information War, one that seems to go along quite well sometimes.
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