Vladimir Putin ’s assassins went through London ’s second busiest railway station on their way to try to kill a former Russian double agent, according to the report into the Salisbury poisonings .

Alexander Petrov, Ruslan Boshirov and Sergey Fedotov, all aliases, were all members of the Russian military intelligence GRU Unit 29155, the 178-page dossier concluded.

Their true names were Aleksandr Mishkin (Petrov), Anatoliy Chepiga (Boshirov) and Denis Sergeev (Fedotov), it added.

They arrived in London from Moscow on Friday 2 March 2018 with the intention of working as a team to kill Sergei Skripal who lived in the historic Wiltshire city.

They failed in their mission and a woman, Dawn Sturgess, was killed after her boyfriend picked up a discarded perfume bottle and gave it to her

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