The weapons were being unloaded for a delivery to a Bulgarian arms dealer, Emilian Gebrev, who was supplying them to the Ukrainian army.
Gordienko is accused of being in "close working contact" in 20 with the three GRU suspects who have been charged.Ĭzech officials said in April they were seeking Chepiga and Mishkin in connection with a previously unexplained 2014 blast at a munitions dump in Vrbetice that killed two men. The investigative website Bellingcat has previously named Egor Aleksandrovich Gordienko as a fourth member of the cell. Mr Haydon said his team continue to investigate and are looking at other suspects linked to the three men. The East London hotel where they had spent two nights tested positive for Novichok. Sergeev did not travel to Salisbury with the other two men. Using the names Alexander Petrov, 41, and Ruslan Boshirov, 43, Chepiga and Mishkin flew back to Moscow from Heathrow at 10.30pm on the day of the attack.
The 69-year-old and Yulia, 37, were left fighting for their lives after they collapsed on a bench in Salisbury having been exposed to the nerve agent on their front door on Sunday March 4. Skripal, a former colonel in the GRU who was caught spying for the UK, and his daughter Yulia survived the assassination attempt. The hotel was later tested for the deadly chemical Novichok but no traces were found, he added.Īnatoliy Chepiga, 41, and Alexander Mishkin, 43, were charged in 2018 with travelling to the UK to carry out the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal. He stayed in an unnamed central London hotel for two nights and met the pair before the attack, returning on a flight from Heathrow at 13.45 on Sunday March 4, Mr Haydon said.
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