British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson holds a joint news conference with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (not pictured) at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 19, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
LONDON (Reuters) - The timing of an attack using military-grade nerve agent against a former Russian spy in England was probably connected to the weekend election won by President Vladimir Putin, British foreign minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday.
"The timing (of the attack in Salisbury) is probably more closely connected with the recent election in Russia," he told a committee of members of parliament.
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