Britain summons Russian ambassador after Litvinenko report

Britain summons the Russian ambassador after a report finds that the Russian state was “probably” involved in the radiation poisoning murder of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006.

London also imposes asset freezes on the two men identified as the perpetrators.

“The conclusion that the murder was authorized at the highest levels of the Russian state is extremely disturbing,” says a spokeswoman for Prime Minister David Cameron.

“It is not the way for any state, let alone a permanent member of the UN Security Council, to behave,” she says. “Regrettably, these findings confirm what we and previous governments already believed.”

Home Secretary Theresa May tells parliament that the killing was “a blatant and unacceptable breach of the most fundamental tenets of international law.”

— AFP