A suspect in the Salisbury poisoning was a decorated Russian intelligence officer, it has been reported.
A Russian man accused of the Salisbury poisoning is a military officer who received an honour from Vladimir Putin, an investigative website says.
Following the attempted poisoning in March, UK investigators identified one of the two suspects as Ruslan Boshirov.
President Putin claimed Boshirov was a civilian, and on Russian TV, he himself said he visited Salisbury as a tourist.
But the website Bellingcat says he is actually an intelligence officer by the name of Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga….
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