Two men accused by the British government of being Russian spies who used a military-grade poison to try to kill a turncoat ex-KGB colonel and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury have gone on Russian television to say they were merely tourists.
The suspects, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, believed by Scotland Yard to be aliases used by members of Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, broke their silence to speak with an interviewer for Russian state-funded news channel RT on Sept. 13. The men said their real names are indeed Petrov and Boshirov, and that they visited Salisbury to see its famous cathedral.
