Britain Has Identified Third Russian Agent in Attack on Former Spy

Police officers stand outside the City Stay Hotel used by Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov; who have been accused of attempting to murder former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia; London, on Sept. 5, 2018. Reuters

LONDON—British police have identified a third Russian military intelligence officer they believe carried out a reconnaissance mission before the attempted murder of double agent Sergei Skripal.

Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer who betrayed dozens of agents to Britain’s MI6 foreign spy service, was found unconscious with his daughter Yulia on a public bench in the southern English city of Salisbury on March 4.