By Travis Fedschun, Fox News
The head of Russia’s foreign intelligence agency lashed out at the U.S. and NATO allies on Wednesday, accusing the West of provoking a new Cold War amid escalating tensions over the poisoning of an ex-spy and his daughter in England.
Sergei Naryshkin, the director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, told a security conference in Moscow attended by defense officials from Asia, Africa, and Latin America that the attack on the former spy, Sergei Skripal, was a “grotesque provocation rudely staged by British and U.S. intelligence agencies.”
British and U.S. officials have previously rejected similar allegations, instead pointing the finger at Russia, which has a long history of ordering hits on spies and dissidents.
Tensions between Russia and other Western nations have greatly escalated since March 4, when Skripal was poisoned by a nerve agent. The United States last week ordered 60 Russian diplomats to leave, part of a widespread expulsion of diplomats by Britain and some of its allies. Moscow ordered tit-for-tat expulsions of Western diplomats as a response.
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