“[T]he results ... into Navalny’s poisoning were published on @Bellingcat: using telephone metadata & flight records, he had identified more than a dozen FSB officers, many with backgrounds in nerve agents, who had shadowed Navalny on 37 trips, ... 1/ newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…
... including his fateful visit to Siberia.” 2/
“‘These operatives were in the vicinity of the opposition activist in the days and hours of the time range during which he was poisoned with a military-grade chemical weapon,’ the report alleged.” 3/
“One F.S.B. officer, the report noted, turned on his mobile phone on the night the poisoning likely took place, pinging a nearby cell tower and revealing his location just north of Navalny’s hotel.” 4/
“@Bellingcat had unravelled the F.S.B.’s operation without ever launching a spy satellite, tapping a phone line, or deploying a single agent to the field. “We stumbled onto the truth purely by observing data from thousands of kilometres away,” Grozev told me.” 5/
This is a fascinating piece by @yaffaesque. 6/
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