EXTERNAL ACTION / Weapons

EU sanctions Head and Deputy Head of the GRU and two ‘tourists’ in the Skripal case

Brussels, 21/01/2019 (Agence Europe)

On Monday 21 January, the Foreign Affairs Council sanctioned the Head of the GRU (also known as the G.U., or the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces), Igor Olegovich Kostyukov, his first Deputy, Vladimir Stepanovich Alekseyev, and the two ‘tourists' in the Skripal case, Anatoliy Chepiga, alias Ruslan Boshirov, and Alexander Mishkin, alias Alexander Petrov (see EUROPE 12173). The latter, suspected of having poisoned the former spy Skripal and his daughter, deny...