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Bellingcat: Skripal suspects confirmed as GRU operatives

By Bellingcat.

Published Sept. 21, 2018 at 10:23 am

A handout picture taken on Fisherton Road in Salisbury, west of London on March 4, 2018, and released by the British Metropolitan Police Service in London on Sept. 5, 2018, shows Alexander Petrov (R) and Ruslan Boshirov, who are wanted by British police in connection with the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

Photo by AFP

In the previous part of a joint investigation, Bellingcat and The Insider – Russia established that:

Alexander Petrov – a fake cover persona for a yet unidentified Russian individual – is not a civilian but linked to one of Russia’s security services. This assessment was based on an exhaustive analysis of “Petrov” passport dossier as obtained from the Russian central passport database.