The suspect in the Skripal poisoning smuggled Yanukovych out of Ukraine

For this special operation, he received the title of "Hero of Russia", says journalist Sergei Kanev.

Russian intelligence colonel Anatoly Chepiga (“Ruslan Boshirov”), whom the UK suspects of poisoning Sergei Skripal, led the operation to evacuate former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to Russia.

about this Hromadsky Serhiy Kanev, a former journalist from the Center for Investigation Management, told . It was for this special operation that Chepiga received the title of Hero of Russia.

Kanev also writes on the MBKh-Media portal that in 2009 Chepiga was transferred to Moscow, where he became a student of the third faculty of the Military Diplomatic Academy (operational tactical intelligence). Graduates of this faculty are distributed among military districts and during the hostilities conduct reconnaissance behind enemy lines, engage in sabotage, mining roads, liquidate command posts, etc. In 2010, upon arrival in Moscow, Anatoly Chepiga was given a new passport in the name of Ruslan Boshirov, a native of Dushanbe .

Kanev was forced to leave Russia because they were going to accuse him of preparing a terrorist attack against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Earlier , The Insider and Bellingcat reported that Anatoly Chepiga is the real name of Ruslan Boshirov, along with another Russian (Alexander Petrov) suspected of poisoning former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.