Good thing the US government would never do anything like that (*cough* Seth Rich, Andrew Breibart, Michael Hastings, Loretta Fundy, ... *cough*)
May not be the action of the Russian Government. Might be some retired Russian operatives who did what their sense of honor demanded they do to a one time colleague who betrayed them.
I say there...stop or I'll yell stop again!
“And Russia can get away with brazenness in the UK because there have never been any consequences to Russian assassinations here,” he said. “The British government either ignores the crimes completely, as they did in the Perepilichnyy case, or they recognise the crime and don’t do anything about it.”
The snobby Brits were riddled with Communist spies at the highest levels of government, specifically, MI-5 and MI-6, decades ago. No reason to believe they still don’t have embedded spies, for some entity. The British government SUCKS!
I’m not sure how carrying out assassinations in other countries for revenge purposes would benefit Putin politically. Could be a CIA false flag. Could be anything.
A former KGB major says he believes Gareth Williams was murdered by Russian hit men as the MI6 spy refused to become a double agent, even after they blackmailed him by taking compromising, staged photographs.