Bellingcat and its partners also maintain that all 15 operatives on the team tailing Navalny have “backgrounds in chemical and biological warfare, medicine, and special operations.” And that they are supported by specialists involved in developing chemical warfare agents:
This sub-unit appears to report to a scientist who previously worked in Russia’s military chemical weapons program in Shikhany, where nerve agents from the Novichok family were originally developed, and is supported by a network of other chemical weapons specialists dispersed at several government-run institutes.
Source: ‘Bellingcat’ joint investigation implicates FSB in Navalny poisoning — Meduza
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