The second of two Russians who Britain says was responsible for the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter has been named by investigative website Bellingcat as Alexander Mishkin, who it says is a military doctor for Russia’s GRU military intelligence.
Voice of America: What is Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency?
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 30, 2016, cars drive past the headquarters of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Department (GRU) in Moscow on December 30, 2016.
GRU stands for the Main Intelligence Directorate, Russia's main military intelligence agency. Along with the FSB security service and the SVR foreign intelligence agency, it's one of Moscow's main spy agencies. Still commonly known as GRU, the agency changed its name to the Main Directorate (GU) as a result of a reform in 2010. British Prime Minister Theresa May said September 5, 2018, that two intelligence officials from Russia's GRU intelligence agency carried out a nerve attack agent attack on a former spy on British soil in March.
