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Sergei Skripal and the "Russian" disinformation game

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great article, i want to know , what % people in your country (city) buy actually Putler´s propaganda today?

"When the UK authorities announced on Wednesday that they suspected two alleged Russian agents in the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, they released CCTV images of the suspects arriving at Gatwick airport.

Two of the images, framed side by side, began to spread on social media, driven by pro-Russia conspiracy theorists and suspected troll accounts. They showed the alleged agents - Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - passing through a non-return gate at the airport.

The images had identical timestamps. How could two men be in exactly the same place at the same time, a flood of tweets asked."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45454142
 
"Speaking on state TV, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed that either "the date and the exact time were superimposed on the image" or that Russian intelligence officers had "mastered the skill of walking simultaneously".

Her remarks were echoed by pro-Kremlin accounts on Twitter and on the messaging app Telegram, which is popular in Russia. Users suggested the CCTV images had been manipulated. They mocked the British authorities and alleged it was an MI6 operation."

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Litwin said:
great article, i want to know , what % people in your country (city) buy actually Putler´s propaganda today?

"When the UK authorities announced on Wednesday that they suspected two alleged Russian agents in the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, they released CCTV images of the suspects arriving at Gatwick airport.

Two of the images, framed side by side, began to spread on social media, driven by pro-Russia conspiracy theorists and suspected troll accounts. They showed the alleged agents - Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - passing through a non-return gate at the airport.

The images had identical timestamps. How could two men be in exactly the same place at the same time, a flood of tweets asked."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45454142
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UK´s answer :

A YouGov poll conducted earlier found that 75% of Britons believed that the Russian state was behind the Skripal poisoning, while just 5% said they thought Russia was innocent. But the sheer volume of Russian disinformation being exported abroad remained a major cause for concern, said one EU official who works on the issue but was not authorised to speak about it publicly.
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Lesh said:
There's a LOT more than just those two images

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/68178...y-poisoning-suspects-novichok-sergei-skripal/

Those guys did it and the Russians are pulling their usual weasel moves
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great post man
"How were the Novichok suspects identified?

Police collected 4,000 hours of CCTV and 2,300 exhibits after the near-fatal poisoning of former MI6 mole Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, in March.

Porton Down scientists said the nerve agent used was Novichok, a deadly chemical invented and manufactured in high-tech labs in Russia.

The government has blamed the Russian state for the attempted assassination of Skripal, an intelligence officer who was jailed in his home country for selling secrets to Britain.

As The Sun revealed, cops believe the Skripals were victims of a bungled hit ordered by the Kremlin and carried out by two assassins who fled the UK the next day.

In July it was reported detectives had identified two Russians as prime suspects.

They are said to have tracked them from CCTV footage and flight records.

A source told the Press Association: “Investigators believe they have identified the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack through CCTV and have cross-checked this with records of people who entered the country around that time.

"They are sure they are Russian.”

Sources said investigators were determined to bring a criminal case against those responsible.

The CPS was considering filing a request demanding the Kremlin hand over the two suspects, according to the Guardian.

Officials argued about whether it was worth while when Mr Putin was likely to refuse the request.

It had been thought police were initially reluctant to release details or pictures of the suspects, fearing it would be harder to bring them to justice.2
 
Apparently novochok is highly soluble in water and the misty/foggy British weather diluted the poison placed on the doorknob of Skripal's home.

The residual left in the perfume container found by the random victim was not diluted and she died after rubbing it on her wrists
 
Lesh said:
Apparently novochok is highly soluble in water and the misty/foggy British weather diluted the poison placed on the doorknob of Skripal's home.

The residual left in the perfume container found by the random victim was not diluted and she died after rubbing it on her wrists
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yes, indeed
 
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