Russian Website Names Third GRU Officer Involved in Salisbury Poisoning

Russian Website Names Third GRU Officer Involved in Salisbury Poisoning
Police officers wear protective suits and breathing apparatus in London Road cemetery as they continue investigations into the poisoning of Sergei Skripal who was found critically ill on a bench in Salisbury, England, on March 10, 2018. Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images
|Updated:

LONDON—The Russian news website Fontanka named a third GRU military intelligence operative, Sergey Fedotov, as having been involved in trying to kill ex-spy Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury.

The website said records show Fedotov visited Britain in 2016, 2017, and 2018 and left the country on March 4 this year, the same day as two other GRU agents who have already been named.