empoisonnement de sergueï skripal

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The UK prime minister and the Russian president were stony-faced before their meeting at the G20 summit in Japan. None were available online or in open sources, even in a number of articles that referred to “Hero of Russia Colonel Chepiga.” Another graduate of DVOKU who reportedly received the same award and videos, yet Chepiga was conspicuously absent. We browsed through multiple (incomplete) yearbook photos and reunion galleries of the classes of 2001-2003 but did not find exact matches for either of the suspects. As it is established practice that the awards are handed out by the Russian president personally, it is highly likely that Vladimir Putin would have been familiar with the identity of Colonel Chepiga, given that only a handful of officers receive this award each year.Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga was born on 5 April 1979, in the far-eastern village of Nikolaevka in the Amur oblast, population 300, near the Russia-China border. Caroline and Stan Sturgess say the full truth about the 2018 novichok poisonings is still unknown Near a photograph of Academy graduates deployed in Chechnya, the text referred to “seven school graduates [who] were bestowed with the Hero of Russia Award”.While testing the hypothesis that the unnamed person at right-most end of the photo Online searches in both Google and via two Russian search engines found no images, or social media presence, related to a Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, or to anyone by that name with a military connection. May later confronted Putin over the novichok attacks in Salisbury last year Even more surprising was the suspects’ prior award of the highest military recognition.

On the assumption that the two suspects were GRU officers with a focus on West European covert operations (see our second about the Skripal poisoning suspects), and knowing their approximate age, we contacted former Russian military officers to inquire what specialized schools would have provided appropriate training. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed surprise that at least one of the operatives engaged in the operation in Salisbury had the rank of colonel. Part 1 and Part 2 of Bellingcat’s investigation into the Skripal poisoning suspects are available for background information.

Initially we attempted reverse image-search via several online engines, but no matches were found. Police and ambulance units replaced 24 cars, vans and 4x4s due to novichok contamination This man was born on 5Using the birth date, address and family members’ names, Bellingcat searched for this man online and on social networks, to no avail. With your support, we will continue to publish groundbreaking investigations and uncover wrongdoing all around the world. Bellingcat does not claim that the person on the right is Chepiga; photograph included for completeness of research process onlyLeft: Anatoliy Chepiga’s passport photo from 2003. Other presidential decrees – when the underlying act of heroism is subject to state secrecy – are kept secret. Juni 1951 in Kaliningrad,[1] Sowjetunion) ist ein ehemaliger Oberst des sowjetischen, später russischen Militärnachrichtendienstes GRU und enttarnte als Überläufer eigene Agenten gegenüber dem britischen Auslandsgeheimdienst MI6. Military chiefs believe warfare is changing with less emphasis on conventional action In these […]

President Putin publicly vouched that “Boshirov” and “Petrov” are civilians. The systematic omission from photographs of an otherwise notable figure – which Bellingcat had previously observed in the case of GRU General Oleg Ivannikov, who served as Minister of Defense of South Ossetia under the cover identity of Andrey Laptev – suggested that Colonel Chepiga may also be a secret service officer.To validate the hypothesis that Chepiga is Skripal poisoning suspect “Boshirov,” Bellingcat and The Insider obtained extracts from the passport file of Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga – the man born on 5th April 1979 – from two separate sources with access to databases dated prior to 2014The passport file contained a photograph – dated approximately in 2003, when this passport was obtained – that strongly resembled a younger “Boshirov” as seen in passport photos released by the UK police, with an even stronger resemblance to the cover identity passport photo published in our previous A passport application form in the passport dossier listed Chepiga’s 2003 place of residence as “Military Unit 20662, Khabarovsk”, confirming this was indeed the person identified in the 2003 database.

Given his current rank of Colonel and function as a clandestine GRU officer, it is plausible that during this period he graduated from the Military Diplomatic In December 2014, Colonel Chepiga was awarded Russia’s highest state “as recognition of services to the state and the people of Russia involving a heroic deed”.

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