UK Investigative Group: Spy Poisoning Suspect Is GRU Colonel

UK Investigative Group: Spy Poisoning Suspect Is GRU Colonel
Ruslan Boshirov, left, and Alexander Petrov attend their first public appearance in an interview with the RT channel in Moscow, Russia. In this video grab provided by the RT channel on Sept. 13, 2018. RT channel video via AP
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MOSCOW—An investigative group in Britain says it has identified one of the two suspects in the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in the U.K. as a highly-decorated colonel in the Russian military intelligence agency GRU.

The group, Bellingcat, said on Sept. 26, that the suspect, whose passport name was Ruslan Boshirov, is in fact Col. Anatoliy Chepiga, who in 2014 was awarded Russia’s highest medal, the Hero of Russia.