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Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov – whom they accused of trying to murder the Skripals with a military-grade nerve agent in England. The duo had entered Britain on genuine passports, prosecutors said, while British Prime Minister Theresa May described them as military intelligence officers almost certainly acting on orders from high up in the Russian state. Putin, speaking at an economic forum in the Russian Pacific port city of Vladivostok, said Russia had located the two men, but that there was nothing special or criminal about them.