Phil1111 896 #26 September 27, 2018 mr2mk1gOne 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDekker 1,101 #27 September 27, 2018 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,362 #28 October 8, 2018 Second suspect identified: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/10/08/second-skripal-poisoning-suspect-identified-as-dr-alexander-mishkin/"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr2mk1g 10 #29 October 9, 2018 And surprise surprise he's a medical doctor employed by the GRU and either a Lt Colonel or a full Colonel and just like his buddy he's also been awarded Hero of the Russian Federation by Putin. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/10/09/full-report-skripal-poisoning-suspect-dr-alexander-mishkin-hero-russia/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil1111 896 #30 October 9, 2018 Putin has put a full deployment order out. How Russian spies bungled cyber-attack on weapons watchdog https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/04/how-russian-spies-bungled-cyber-attack-on-weapons-watchdog With US leadership DOA only Russian incompetence is keeping themselves in check. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeJD 0 #31 October 12, 2018 mr2mk1gOne 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil1111 896 #32 November 23, 2018 kallend More casualties. I am mortified. www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/world/europe/russia-skripal-debutantes-britain.html 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.” Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites