GRU agent who sought internship with International Criminal Court called Putin's regime «cancerous» and retweeted Bellingcat's publications

Most of his tweets are about supporting Trump (here, for example, is his deleted but archived text in support of Trump). And in 2017, he retweeted a link to a Bellingcat's publication about his GRU colleagues.

The Real Biography

According to the information from databases, Cherkasov is originally from Kaliningrad; he traveled frequently between Kaliningrad and Moscow by train between 2005 and 2008. There are also records of three flights that Cherkasov took in the summer of 2015, apparently during the summer vacation after his first year at Trinity College. Those were the flights between Moscow and Kaliningrad (June 29, 2015) and Moscow and Belgorod (August 7, 2015-9, 2015).

The Russian Telegram channel Beware the News published a photo that allegedly shows Cherkasov in a military uniform with a classmate from the Baltic State Fishing Fleet Academy. They are the same age, having graduated together in 2007.