Bellingcat

Aric Toler is the Director of Research and Training at Bellingcat.

Bellingcat reported that an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zellensky went on his Telegram channel to speculate that Russia was behind the leak.

Bellingcat said one Edinburgh-registered SLP had been used to import static converters to Russia, a key piece of equipment considered to be highly sensitive.

Commander Murphy said reporting by the investigative group Bellingcat "helped us to understand who Chepiga really was".

Other targets were Bellingcat investigative journalist Christo Grozev, 54, UK-based Russian journalist Roman Dobrokhotov, 41, who founded The Insider, and Kazakhstan dissident Bergey Ryskaliyev.

Analysis by the Bellingcat investigative website, which did groundbreaking work in the wake of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, suggests the video is genuine.

In a brief skirmish with security forces, eight of the rebels were killed and two were arrested, according to from independent news outlet Bellingcat.

Navalny said he phoned the alleged FSB operative hours before the Bellingcat report was released.

The investigation, conducted by Bellingcat and Russian news outlet The Insider in co-operation with CNN and German news outlet Der Spiegel, identified the supposed FSB operatives after analyzing telephone metadata and flight information.

The investigative organisation Bellingcat said it had geolocated the video and believed it to be credible.

The team at Bellingcat and other open-source investigators pore over publicly available material.

This GRU officer departed Geneva urgently midway through his four-year mandate following Bellingcat’s disclosures and identifications of members of this GRU unit published in late 2018.

Together with Lighthouse Reports, Bellingcat, "Report Mainz” -- a program on ARD, the German public broadcaster -- and Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi, DER SPIEGEL spent several months reporting in the Aegean Sea region.

His stint with Bellingcat and the Ukrainian hackers made memories to last a lifetime.

It was subsequently reported by Bellingcat that Mr Boshirov was actually highly decorated Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, and Mr Petrov was a military doctor called Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin.

Joining the chorus of bashers on Sunday was Elliot Higgins, the founder of the UK-based ‘citizen investigation’ outlet Bellingcat, who wrote a whopping 4,000-word piece attacking Gabbard’s negative attitude toward regime change wars.

Bellingcat’s report includes an impressive amount of detail, some gained from sources in Russia, about Ivannikov’s troubling background as a Russian spy specializing in dirty work.

Bellingcat, which covers intelligence matters, named him as Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin, aged 39, who was charged by Britain last month under the name of Alexander Petrov.

Eliot Higgins explained on the open-source investigations site Bellingcat in November, the Russian defense ministry claimed that month to have uncovered “irrefutable evidence” of cooperation between the U.S. military and Islamic State militants.

Investigative website Bellingcat has named the second suspect in the Salisbury poisoning as Russian military doctor Alexander Mishkin.