From Salisbury spy poisoning suspect identified as Russian colonel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe investigative group Bellingcat says it has identified one of the two suspects in the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Britain as a highly-decorated colonel of the Russian military intelligence agency GRU.
Bellingcat says the suspect, whose passport name was Ruslan Boshirov, is in fact Col. Anatoliy Chepiga, who in 2014 was awarded Russia’s highest medal, the Hero of Russia.
FROM HERO TO ZERO: Now we know who "Ruslan Boshirov" is. https://t.co/xBZ33HGkDV
— Bellingcat (@bellingcat) September 26, 2018
Britain has charged Boshirov and another suspect, Alexander Petrov, with trying to kill Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter on March 4 with the Soviet-designed nerve agent Novichok in the English city of Salisbury. Britain has said the attack received approval “at a senior level of the Russian state,” an accusation Moscow has fiercely denied.
There was no immediate comment from Moscow on Bellingcat’s latest claim.
— AP
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