{"id":82235,"date":"2018-10-09T13:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82235"},"modified":"2018-10-09T13:52:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T17:52:24","slug":"vlad-you-naughty-naughty-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82235","title":{"rendered":"Vlad, You Naughty, Naughty Man…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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It appears that Vlad Putin, the guy who is really in charge of everything Russian, has two more spy guys who have recently been arrested for attempted murder in March 2018 of the 67-year-old defected Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, through the use of a Novichok nerve agent known as A-234. \u00a0They were trades in a spy swap several years ago.<\/p>\n

If you will recall, in 2006, Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned and murdered by dropping polonium-210 into his tea. \u00a0https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-19647226<\/a><\/p>\n

This most recent attempt to destroy ex-spies who defected to the West seems to be a continuing story.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/second-spy-poisoning-suspect-identified-as-russian-military-doctor-1539069356<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article: \u00a0A London-based investigative journalism group said it has learned that one of the men accused of poisoning a former Russian spy in Britain earlier this year is a medical doctor and veteran of Russia\u2019s military intelligence service.<\/p>\n

The group, Bellingcat,\u00a0reported on its website<\/a>\u00a0Monday evening that the man identified and charged by U.K. authorities as Alexander Petrov is actually Alexander Mishkin, a highly decorated member of Russia\u2019s military intelligence service, commonly known as the GRU.<\/p>\n

Bellingcat used documents including a passport to identify Mr. Mishkin, it said.<\/p>\n

The announcement came two weeks after Bellingcat and investigative website Insider reported that Ruslan Boshirov, identified by U.K. authorities as Petrov\u2019s partner in the alleged assassination attempt,\u00a0was actually Anatoliy Chepiga<\/a>, a GRU colonel of high rank.<\/p>\n

Bellingcat said it used \u201cmultiple open sources, testimony from people familiar with the person, as well as copies of personally identifying documents,\u201d including a scanned copy of Mr. Mishkin\u2019s passport to prove that he wasn\u2019t in fact Petrov.<\/p>\n

Last month,\u00a0British prosecutors charged two Russian men<\/a>\u2014named in court proceedings as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov\u2014with four offenses related to the poisoning of 67-year-old defected Russian spy Sergei Skripal, who has lived in Britain since a 2010 spy swap with Moscow. His daughter Yulia was also poisoned, and like her father, left critically ill following the attack.<\/p>\n

Western allies expelled dozens of Russian diplomats as punishment for Moscow\u2019s alleged role in the Skripals\u2019 poisoning. In August, the U.S. unveiled a new series of sanctions and threatened additional stronger measures in November if Moscow fails to comply with certain criteria. — WSJ article<\/p>\n

The two Russians who were arrested and charged with attempted murder insist that they were in Salisbury simply to see the cathedral. I’ve been there myself. It is quite old and quite impressive in that it took so long to complete building the cathedral that it includes both Gothic and Romanesque structures and windows. It is a quiet place, with scars from the swords of Oliver Cromwell’s army when they entered the cathedral and tried to destroy some of the tombs. \u00a0It’s not far on a daytrip bus tour from Stonehenge.<\/p>\n

These episodes of murder and attempted murder of people who either defected or were trades for others clashes with Vlad’s efforts to build Russia into a major power, when he engages in this extremely petty and nasty stuff. If they were trades in a spy swap, why would you have them murdered? Yeah, I know – they defected afterwards, which is embarrassing, but they just don’t like you, Vlad. Revenge is just a dumb thing to do. If they had any info, it’s already in the hands of “others”.<\/p>\n

Read the linked articles, especially the one about Litivinenko. Nobody believed him at first, until it was literally too late.<\/p>\n

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