Alexander
Mishkin was born on July 13, 1979 in the Arkhangelsk Region, studied at
the elite military medical academy, and was trained to work as a doctor
for the Russian navy. The
GRU was recruited during his studies, in 2010 he moved to Moscow and
received documents in the name of Alexander Petrov, according to a joint
investigation of the Internet publication The Insider and the research
group Bellingcat. According
to these data,Mishkin was registered at 76-b, Khoroshevskoye Highway, where the headquarters of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense is located.
Confirmation of this information, the journalists of the “Russian Service Bi-bi-si” found in one of the databases of personal data. Earlier, Bellingcat and The Insider named the real name of another suspect in Skripale poisoning - this is the GRU colonel Anatoly Chepiga.
Alexander Petrov, who in Britain is suspected of poisoning the former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, is a military doctor from the GRU (now the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces) Alexander Mishkin, according to investigators from The Insider and Bellingcat. According to them, he visited Ukraine, Transnistria and the countries of Western Europe.
London is also suspected of being poisoned by Ruslan Boshirov, whom the Insider journalists and Bellingcat experts called Colonel Intelligence Anatoly Chepiga. Bellingcat said that to identify Alexander E. Mishkin, open sources were used, the words of people familiar with this person, as well as copies of documents proving his identity, including a copy of his passport. Fully about how to identify Mishkin, the researchers promised to tell on Tuesday, October 9th.
“The true identity of Alexander Mishkin has an even rarer digital trace than that of Anatoly Chepigi,” notes Bellingcat. According to investigators, Alexander Mishkin was born in July 1979 in the village of Loiga (Arkhangelsk region), received a medical education in one of the military academies of Russia and was trained as a military doctor for the Navy at the Military Medical Academy. The GRU offered Mishkin a job when he was studying; he received the “secret personality” in Moscow, where he had moved by 2010, according to the investigation.
Bellingcat also claims to have established the facts of several Mishkin trips, including to Ukraine, one of these trips took place in December 2013. The current military rank of Alexander Mishkin is unknown, investigators say, but suggest that during the poisoning of Skripale he was either a lieutenant colonel or a colonel.
London claims that when the poisoning of Sergei and Julia Scripal was used combat nerve agent of the family "Novice". The British authorities claimed that Moscow was involved in this incident, in Russia it was rejected.In early September, British Prime Minister Theresa May notified Parliament that two Russians with passports in the names of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirova, who are considered by special services as agents of the GRU, are considered suspects in the assassination attempt.
