LONDON, July 6. /TASS/. Russia’s embassy to London has commented on the article in The Times, which claims that "Britain’s spy agencies are braced for Russia to launch a new attack on the UK" as soon as it finishes hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

"The best thing about paranoia is that you don’t need to have a logical explanation for your tantrums," the embassy wrote on Twitter on Friday, attaching a photo of the article.

The UK’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid had not ruled out earlier that new measures would be imposed on Russia in case Moscow’s involvement in the poisoning of two Britons in Amesbury is proved. A 44-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, identified as Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, were found unconscious in their home in Amesbury on June 30. Both were taken to the hospital in critical condition.

Javid has said that the pair came into contact with the same strand of the Novichok nerve agent that had been used against former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. London had pinned responsibility for the attack on Moscow then.

Skripal poisoning case

On March 4, former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, 66, who had been convicted in Russia for spying for the UK, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious on a bench near the Maltings shopping center in Salisbury, England. Police said they had been exposed to a nerve agent.

Later on, London claimed that the Novichok-class toxin had been allegedly developed in Russia. The UK rushed to accuse Russia of being involved, while failing to furnish any evidence. Moscow refuted the accusations stating that neither the Soviet Union nor Russia had ever done research on that toxic chemical.