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So a NATO Ally has been Attacked by Russia with Banned Weapons.

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mr2mk1g

One of the suspects (who supposedly was just a civilian living out a life-long dream of visiting the cathedral in some random provincial English city) has now been identified as Colonel of the GRU Anatoliy Chepiga, previously decorated with Russia's highest award, Hero of the Russian Federation by decree of Putin.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/09/26/skripal-suspect-boshirov-identified-gru-colonel-anatoliy-chepiga/



Superb work by UK intelligence services.

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mr2mk1g

One of the suspects (who supposedly was just a civilian living out a life-long dream of visiting the cathedral in some random provincial English city) has now been identified as Colonel of the GRU Anatoliy Chepiga, previously decorated with Russia's highest award, Hero of the Russian Federation by decree of Putin.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/09/26/skripal-suspect-boshirov-identified-gru-colonel-anatoliy-chepiga/



Putin told me it wasn't them, so that's that.

:S

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mr2mk1g

One of the suspects (who supposedly was just a civilian living out a life-long dream of visiting the cathedral in some random provincial English city) has now been identified as Colonel of the GRU Anatoliy Chepiga, previously decorated with Russia's highest award, Hero of the Russian Federation by decree of Putin.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/09/26/skripal-suspect-boshirov-identified-gru-colonel-anatoliy-chepiga/



...and the other apparently is a GRU doctor.

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kallend


More casualties. I am mortified. ditto:

Igor Korobov: Death of Russian GRU chief latest in long line of fatal incidents surrounding agency
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/igor-korobov-dead-russia-gru-spy-agency-sergei-skripal-yulia-salisbury-novichok-a8646856.html

Korobov’s predecessor, Igor Sergun, died in 2016 in circumstances still disputed, with one version suggesting he died in Beirut, rather than Moscow as officially claimed. A number of suspicious deaths went before that. In 2009, a deputy GRU chief was found washed up on a Turkish beach. In 1997, a major general fell out of a window. In 1996, a top officer was run over by a car. And in 1992, a deputy head of the agency was killed in a car accident. ...

Sloppy intelligence lapses were uncovered by online investigative journalists, and this led to revelations about the probable identities of several hundred active agents. ...

Much more important, says Golts, was a change in Russia’s military posture in 2012, first signalled by the newly-installed chief of the general staff, Valery Gerasimov.

“Gerasimov’s new doctrine ended the distinction between states of war and peace, and envisaged the GRU playing a leading role in a new endless, non-linear war,” he says.

“Almost as soon as the GRU lost focus on its traditional targets, the failures began.”

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