This is ... interesting:
The two Russians (they don't deny being Russians, at least) accused of the
Salisbury novichok attack on Sergei Skripal and the
Amesbury poisonings have been interviewed on RT.
Skripal suspects display impressive command of Wikipedia | John Crace | UK news | The Guardian 
Quote:
Simonyan could barely contain her tears. This was one of the saddest stories she had ever heard. But worse was still to come. What really hurt Petrov and Boshirov the most was that they had been accused of carrying Nina Ricci perfume. “Isn’t it silly for decent lads to have women’s perfume?” Boshirov wept. “The customs are checking everything, they would have questions as to why men have women’s perfume in their luggage. We didn’t have it.”
Accusations of being GRU assassins they could live with. The suggestion that they might wear women’s perfume was just too much. If they had been carrying novichok they would have done so in a can of Lynx. Because they were proper Russian men. Fashionable guys with tight pants and biceps bulging under their sweaters, as Simonyan had kindly observed. But not girly boys. Anything but that.
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Skripal suspects' account of Salisbury trip does not add up | UK news | The Guardian
No 10 calls Salisbury suspects' interview 'blatant lies' | UK news | The Guardian
Salisbury pair's unlikely story only makes UK's case stronger | UK news | The Guardian
Quote:
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It is possible the propagandists are so inured to lying without consequence that they genuinely thought the explanation would fly. But if this was an attempt to sow western suspicion that MI6 had got the wrong men, the interview will have had the opposite effect.
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