Men Claiming To Be Salisbury Suspects Say They Were Only Visiting Cathedral theguardian.com

The two men identified as suspects in the Salisbury nerve agent attack appeared on Russia’s state-funded TV station RT on Thursday, claiming they had visited the “wonderful” English city as tourists to see its cathedral.

The pair, who said their names were Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, appeared to resemble men shown in stills from CCTV cameras released by British police investigating the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy who had passed information to the British.

British police say that the names used by the men are aliases and that there is evidence that they are Russian military intelligence agents.

In the RT interview the men said they had both been in Salisbury and were the people identified in the CCTV stills.