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Kremlin to UK: Show your poison evidence

A Kremlin spokesman has called Britain's allegations of poisoning "difficult to explain, groundless and slanderous".

Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says Russia has been stockpiling a deadly nerve agent. (AAP)

The Kremlin says that London would either have to back up its assertions that Russia was behind the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in Britain with evidence or apologise "sooner or later".

Britain accused Russia of being responsible for the use of a Soviet-era nerve agent called Novichok which was used to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters that Britain's allegations were "difficult to explain, groundless and slanderous".

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday it was nonsense to think that Moscow was responsible for the attack.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday that Russia's denials were "increasingly absurd."


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