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A 'third man' was probably sent to Salisbury to scope out Sergei Skripal's home ahead of the devastating novichok attack, it emerged today. Last night suspect Boshirov was outed as Anatoly Chepiga, a colonel in Putin's feared special forces army who the President personally made a 'Hero of Russia' for missions in Chechnya and Ukraine. The Russian Embassy in London also suggested that British-based Bellingcat, whose investigators found the men by examining military records, leaked resident databases and passport files, is actually Putin gave 39-year-old Chepiga, who had served in Chechnya and Ukraine with the Spetsnaz batallion, Russia's highest bravery honour in 2014 – under his real name - suggesting that the President may know him personally. The group say he is actually Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga Ruslan Boshirov when he appeared on Russian-state TV with fellow suspect Alexander Petrov to claim they only visited Salisbury to see the famous cathedral spire Picture released by Bellingcat of Ruslan Boshirov's passport photo from 2009 with 'do not reveal information' stamped on it. The Russian embassy in London made no comment This undated image is alleged to show Chepiga posing with fellow members of the Russian military The dark star of Russia's elite special forces school: Colonel who signed up at 18, was honoured at gaudy memorial to military and then sent to kill Skripal The highly-decorated spy blamed for the Salisbury poisonings was a veteran of Russia's elite special forces and had trained at one of the country's top military academies, it emerged last night.
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