Putin calls ex-Russian double agent a "scumbag" and "traitor"
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal a "scumbag" and a "traitor"â while denying allegations that Russia had ordered his poisoningâ. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were found slumped on a park bench in the English city of Salisbury in March. Britain says Russian intelligence officers poisoned them with a nerve agent called 'Novichok'. 