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Eliot Higgins
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Following up on our earlier reporting examining the movements of three GRU agents linked to the Skripal poisoning @bellingcat has now published more details of their movements, this time in Switzerland bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
The investigation includes extremely detailed information on the movements of senior GRU officer Denis Sergeev, believed to have played a supervising and coordinating role in the Skripal poisoning.
GRU officer Denis Sergeev's travels through Switzerland occasionally coincided with visits to Switzerland by the other two Skripal suspects and GRU officers Col. Alexander Mishkin and Col. Anatoli Chepiga, suggesting they worked together on a regular basis.
Additional reporting on the case in German can be found here
tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/Auf-de…
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Eliot Higgins
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Aiming to have the first episode of the Bellingcat 6 episode podcast documentary on MH17 out by July 17th. We've interviewed journalists, family members, lawyers, experts, and even Fred Westerbeke of the JIT about MH17, and we're looking forward to sharing it with you all.
The 1st episode focuses on the 48 hours immediately after MH17 was shot down, with interviews with journalists on the scene, including a lot of powerful testimony about what they saw in Eastern Ukraine. Big thanks to all of those involved for sharing their experiences with us.
In later episodes we talk about the Bellingcat investigation, the reaction of the Russian government, the story of what happened from the perspective of the separatists pieced together using audio intercepts, and the future for the case in various courts.
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Eliot Higgins
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It feels like all the social media companies are having a go at open source investigators this week, first Facebook with graph search, then Twitter with shutting down open source investigator accounts, now YouTube has banned Bellingcat's YouTube channel:
2 years ago YouTube suspended my other YouTube account that was used for my old blog, after lots of back and forth they finally restored it, so it's not like they don't know who Bellingcat is.
I'd personally preferred to have spent the day preparing our new MH17 report and working on more pressing issues, but now I guess I get to spend my time trying to get the channel restored instead. Thanks, YouTube.
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Eliot Higgins
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Whenever I'm filming an interview & they want some footage of me typing for whatever, instead of typing random letters I write confessions to the various conspiracy theories I'm accused of being part of just in case any of those obsessive loonies are checking what I'm typing.
Gotta keep yourself entertained while filming the b-roll.
You also don't want to be this guy:
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Elena Evdokimova
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1. #Skripal
None of the photos Bellingcat produced were the photos of Chepiga.
All 3 - are the photocopies from the documents that were needed to apply for a 5 year foreign passport and they we all photos of Boshirov. But the plot is much more sophisticated than we imagined.
2. These documents Boshirov brought to one of "we will get you a foreign passport in a few days" private firms - to replace Boshirov's (close to the expiration date) old foreign passport.
3. 30-40 sets copies of people's documents (those who applied for a foreign passport through that firm) were stolen by a criminal in 2016. That's why the passports Bellingcat is forging have the same series and consecutive numbers- they were stolen at the same time & place.
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Elena Evdokimova
@elenaevdokimov7
@Belligcat's new opus on #Skripal's alleged poisoning

1. This is becoming hilarious🤣🤣
Person who filled the alleged passport form also forged the С.С. on the other form- its the SAME handwriting!
2. In my previous tweets it is explained that the "completely secret/confidential" marks were always made by a stamp, not handwritten. (& this stamp will be never placed on the empty form). threadreaderapp.com/thread/1040764…
This form is filled in by a forger
3. The same forger that worked in 2016 in the same "we'll get you foreign passport in 3 days" private company and had access in 2016 to some number of passports and applications. He/she forged Shirokov's passport copy for the Montenegro false flag op:
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Elena Evdokimova
@elenaevdokimov7
1. ATlantic council's fellow Higging and @bellingcat created a new opus on Petrov and Bashirov, implying that they are members of GRU, Russian secret service. Lets look at "facts" they provided to prove these allegations.
2. Bellingcat implies that there is an alleged stamp on Alexander Petrov’s passport dossier:“Do not provide any information”and his handwritten name. All passport documents in Russia are typed,without exclusion. There is no point to duplicate the name on top.Real 1P form below
3. This conclusion Bellingcat supports with another EMPTY document
with a handwritten note on top stating that somebody recommended to make is confidential "совершенно секретно" "С.С."We have to BELIEVE that its Petrov's form. BTW,those words are always stamped, not handwritten.
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Michael Kobs
@MichaKobs
A few interesting things about the #Skripal briefing:
Apparently the parfume bottle was a strange Nina Ricci fake. It's not particular clear how to apply a gel with it.
The two suspects had a room in the CityStay Hotel near Bow Road. The investigators took samples on 4th May (one month after the suspects left). Two samples had harmless traces of Novichok. "Just to be sure" they took new samples from the same spots and found nothing.
The investigators explained the negative result by "brushing away" the Novichok when they took the first samples. It means they had a lot of luck in the first place to find the invisible spots on the wall and accidentally decontaminated the hotel room with a cotton swap.
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Anabelle
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The poison Novichok, used on a former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in South West England last week, was a chemical weapon produced by a 'highly secretive Soviet-era program to develop a new grade of undetectable nerve agents.' threadreaderapp.com/thread/9738657…
The British consulate in St. Petersburg was also ordered to close and the British Council must stop its work in Russia. British Council was used as a cover organization for British intelligence officers. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The Russian ex-spy who along with his daughter was poisoned by a nerve agent in the U.K. may have been exposed to the neurotoxin through his car's ventilation system. Affecting 38 persons, medically. abcnews.go.com/amp/Internatio…
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Paula Chertok🗽
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Critically ill Russian national is 66yo Sergei Skripal, former intel colonel/double agent granted refuge in UK after a 2010 "spy swap" between US & Russia. He and a woman were apparently poisoned in/near Salisbury shopping center. bbc.in/2D2oj7X
Ex-Russian spy & daughter 'poisoned' in UK sparks fears of another Kremlin-backed hit. Investigators scrambling to identify the chemical used. Skripal feared for his life after his wife died in a car crash & his son was killed in a road incident.. thesun.co.uk/news/5733372/s…
UK warns Kremlin over poisoning of ex-spy Skripal & his daughter. Recalling Litvinenko murder, FM Johnson said UK was "in the lead across the world" in trying to counteract a "host of malign activity" by Russia.

Skripal's brother, son & wife have been killed in the last 2 year.
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