Tag: honoured by Putin

London : A Russian man accused of poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK, is a military officer who received an "honour" from President Vladimir Putin, an investigative website has revealed. Following the attempted poisoning in March, UK investigators identified one of the two suspects as Ruslan Boshirov, the BBC reported on Thursday. Putin had claimed Boshirov was a civilian, and on Russian TV, he himself said he visited Salisbury as a tourist. But according to the British website Bellingcat, Boshirov is actually an intelligence officer by the...