Probes show Russia staged Skripal attack from London

LONDON: An open-source investigation has found that a top Russian military intelligence officer coordinated last year's Salisbury chemical attack from a London hideout using his phone and a few messaging apps.

The findings"shed light on the likely chain of command for this GRU overseas operations, with one coordinating senior officer communicating with headquarters in Moscow while the team on the ground receive limited to no new instructions," the Bellingcat report said. Both men entered Britain using false passports and were captured on CCTV footage walking around the southern English town shortly before Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found slumped over on a park bench.Mishkin and Chepiga later told Russian television that they were tourists who went to Salsbury to look at the local cathedral.

The website found that Sergeev was in Bulgaria during the 2015 poisoning of a local arms dealer who suffered similar symptoms to Skripal's.Joint findings by the BBC and Bellingcat detail Sergeev's movements and mobile phone communications while in London in March 2018. The BBC found that Sergeev used messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram to communicate with both the two Russians in Salsbury and his Moscow commander.

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