Spy poisoning: Russian officer named suspect

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group of investigative journalists from Britain and Russia on Wednesday named a highly decorated colonel in Russia’s military intelligence service as one of the men accused of poisoning a former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, Britain earlier this year.

A report by the investigative group Bellingcat and the Insider, a Russian news outlet, named the suspect as Col. Anatoly Chepiga, a 2014 recipient of the title Hero of the Russian Federation. (New York Times News Service)