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AP Confirms Bellingcat: Russian Suspect in UK Poisoning, Is Hero to His Home Village

“Alexander Petrov,” a Russian man accused of an assassination attempt in England,  is actually a decorated GRU officer named Alexander Mishkin. The story, first reported by Bellingcat, the crowd-sourced investigative site, and The Insider, a Moscow-based news site, has now been confirmed. AP reporter Nataliya Vasilyeva went to Mishkin’s home town and discovered it was...

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Bellingcat and Russia Insider: Skripal Suspects Confirmed as GRU Operatives

The two news sites say leaked passport files of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, two Russians charged with poisoning a former intelligence officer in Great Britain, “displayed characteristics atypical of a civilian person’ passport.” They further alleged that: the number on the suspects’ stamps indeed is identical to a telephone number that belongs to the...

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