Russia's ambassador to the UK has rejected the findings of an official investigation into the death of Dawn Sturgess, killed after the Salisbury poisoning attack in 2018.

The report concluded Vladimir Putin "must have" authorised the use of a nerve agent in the attack and was therefore "morally responsible" for the British woman's death.

Ambassador Andrei Kelin dismissed those claims and said he did not have a message for her family because Moscow was not involved.

Image: Ambassador Andrei Kelin of Russia leaving the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in central London in 2022. Pic: PA

"It's a tragic death, it is of course sad and Russia has nothing to do with it," he said.

The poisonings of Sergei Skripal - a former Russian spy - and his daughter were, he insi

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