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@the_ins_ru

This includes all the individuals identified in our investigation with @the_ins_ru who we demonstrated were tied to the attempted assassination of @navalny

https://twitter.com/AlexMartin/status/1428683862360657922

@navalny

Our full investigation into the poisoning of @navalny containing many more details about these individuals and the assassination attempt can be found here bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

It should not be forgotten that various combinations of these same individuals were linked to a number of other apparent assassinations and attempted assassinations. After Navalny, we first linked the deaths of three activists to their movements.
bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

@vkaramurza

Boris Nemstov's ally @vkaramurza was also targeted twice by members of the same team in 2015 and 2017. Both times the target of the assassination fell into a coma while being followed by members of the FSB kill team bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

In one of the more surprising and troubling cases, Russian Poet Dmitry Bykov fell seriously ill while being followed by the FSB kill team. His "crime" seemed to be nothing more than satirising the Russian regime. bellingcat.com/news/2021/06/0…

We are also continuing to investigate a number of other incidents where individuals whose travels repeatedly coincided with the same team fell seriously ill or died under mysterious circumstances.

Details on the sources we used for these investigations can be found in the below link. bellingcat.com/resources/2020…

These attempted assassinations by the FSB have a connection to the GRU and their attempted assassinations of Sergei Skripal and Emilian Gebrev through a network of laboratories secretly producing nerve agents for the Russian State assassination programmes. bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

And along with nerve agents, the Russian intelligence services are still involved with more traditional bullet-based assassination techniques, such as the Berlin Bicycle Assassin, who we connected to the FSB bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

The Berlin Bicycle Assassin is on trial in Germany at the moment, and we expect to hear the outcome of the trial later this year. Bellingcat has played a major role in that trial, providing the same sort of evidence used in our other assassination investigations to the court.

Given that, a guilty verdict where Bellingcat's work plays a decisive factor would certainly have a wider impact than just the Berlin Bicycle Assassin case.

@the_ins_ru

The US Department of State has announced further action against individuals and organisations identified by Bellingcat and @the_ins_ru as being involved with the attempted assassination of @navalny

Details can be found here state.gov/fact-sheet-uni…

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