Third Russian national charged over Salisbury novichok poisonings
Source: The Guardian
Third Russian national charged over Salisbury poisonings
Man using the name Sergey Fedotov alleged to have been working with Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
Tue 21 Sep 2021 11.37 BST
A third Russian national has been charged over the 2018 novichok poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, British police have said.
A man using the name Sergey Fedotov, believed to be about 50 years old, is alleged to have been working as part of a Russian military unit with Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who have previously been charged over the poisonings in Wiltshire.
Scotland Yard said all three men were working for Russias GRU military spy agency, the first time it has explicitly implicated the GRU, although the then prime minister, Theresa May, blamed it in 2018.
Dean Haydon, the Metropolitan polices deputy assistant commissioner and senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism policing, said the trio were believed to have previously worked together as a unit in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic and possibly other locations. They are not believed to have worked in the UK before the Salisbury attack, although all three had travelled here before.
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