Russian authorities say they will investigate claims in the British media that one of the two men accused of a poisoning attack on a double spy in southern England in March was a Russian colonel.
Kremlin spokesman Demitry Peskov said Thursday that Moscow will investigate reports that Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, an alleged Russian military officer, posed as Ruslan Boshirov when he entered Britain earlier this year to allegedly carry out a nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury.
“Many people look alike, but I cannot tell you who this citizen who was pointed out in this investigation is,” said Peskov.
He said that Moscow will check claims that Chepiga, 39, had been an honoree of Russian Federation by decree of President Vladimir Putin in 2014 after serving in wars in Chechnya and Ukraine.
The Daily Telegraph and the BBC on Wednesday published reports citing evidences by Bellingcat, a website that covers…