On Thursday 22 March, the European leaders said in the European Council conclusions that it was highly likely the Russian Federation is responsible for the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, UK, believing that there is no other plausible explanation.
After an"intense" three-hour debate, a European source said that the heads of state and government of the EU went further than their foreign ministers and that an earlier draft of the conclusions in...