Stony-faced May condemns ‘irresponsible’ Putin at frosty face-to-face G20 meeting | ITV News

Theresa May condemned Vladimir Putin’s “irresponsible” actions in a frosty meeting between the two leaders dominated by exchanges about the Salisbury nerve agent attack.

The Prime Minister was stony-faced as she shook hands with the Russian president before talks in which she told him the use of the Novichok nerve agent in the Wiltshire city was a “truly despicable act”.

She said the UK had “irrefutable” evidence that Russia was behind the attack on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March 2018.

It comes after she told ITV News ahead of the meeting that she would use the occasion to urge Mr Putin to hand over the two suspects in the case, adding: "We will be making every effort to bring them to justice."

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