Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claims that foreign media reports about the identity of the suspect in the Boshiroff Violins poisoning are "throwing". According to her, London can not find evidence of Moscow's involvement in the attempt on Sergei and Julia Skripal. The British are using false information to distract attention from the investigation into the Salisbury incident. "A new injection of Petrov and Boshirov was carried out immediately after the speech of Theresa May in the UN Security Council on the topic of weapons of mass destruction, during which she again voiced accusations against Russia," Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page. At the same time, she recalled that since March of this year, London was unable to argue its accusations against the Kremlin. Previously, the publications The Insider and Bellingcat reported that Ruslan Boshirov, who, along with Alexander Petrov, London accused of poisoning Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia, is a GRU colonel, Hero of Russia Anatoly Chepiga.

Prior to this, the media reported that a man identified in Boshirov his colleague. He categorically stated that Ruslan could not have been involved in the poisoning in Salisbury. Former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia were poisoned in the English city of Salisbury in March this year. London announced that Russia was responsible for the incident, and named the names of the perpetrators of the terrorist act - they were allegedly Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.