Kremlin denies responsibility for Litvinenko death and calls ruling 'unsubstantiated'


Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit via a video link at his residence outside Moscow, Russia, September 17, 2021. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit via a video link at his residence outside Moscow, Russia, September 17, 2021. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS
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MOSCOW (Bywire News) - On Tuesday, the Kremlin denied what they describe as an "unsubstantiated" ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, which found Russia responsible for the murder of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.

Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman said, "The ECHR hardly has the authority or technological capacity to possess information on the matter. There are still no results from this investigation and making such claims is at the very least unsubstantiated."

(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Maria Kiselyova and Klaudia Fior)

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