Crown Prosecution Service: "there is sufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction and it is clearly in the public interest to charge Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov" with the attempted murder of the Skripals.
cps.gov.uk/cps/news/cps-s…
cps.gov.uk/cps/news/cps-s…
Met Police: "CCTV shows them in the vicinity of Mr Skripal’s house"
news.met.police.uk/news/counter-t…
news.met.police.uk/news/counter-t…
Also per Met Police, there were traces of Novichok in the hotel room.
Eerily similar to the Litvinenko assassination, and similar recklessness with the murder weapon.
Eerily similar to the Litvinenko assassination, and similar recklessness with the murder weapon.
Per @Theresa_May, Russian government's "attempts to hide the truth by pushing out a deluge of disinformation simply reinforces their culpability."
And reinforces their sense of the UK's impotence?
gov.uk/government/spe…
And reinforces their sense of the UK's impotence?
gov.uk/government/spe…
May homes in on the GRU.
Understandable, but important to make sure the focus on the GRU doesn't come at the expense of analysing other parts of the active-measures toolkit.
The Kremlin's approach is full-spectrum.
Understandable, but important to make sure the focus on the GRU doesn't come at the expense of analysing other parts of the active-measures toolkit.
The Kremlin's approach is full-spectrum.
