Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov took up false identities and used a slew of false documents to work their way across Europe, new documents released by counterterror cops show

The Russian poisoners who carried out the attempted assassination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal wove a tangled web of deceit that allowed them to carry a deadly nerve agent thousands of miles before dispensing it in Salisbury.

Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - real names Alexander Mishkin and Anatoliy Chepiga - travelled from Moscow to London while hauling Novichok, a Russian poison, which they deployed in Salisbury on March 4, 2018, in a bid to kill the two former agents. An inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who died when her partner gifted her a perfume bottle which, unbenknownst to him, contained t

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