According to Respekt, both men arrived in the Czech Republic on October 13, 2014 by a regular airflot flight from Moscow. They left the country on October 16, when they flew to Austria, and from there flew back to Moscow. Having entered the Czech Republic, both presented passports-covers issued by the intelligence of the GRU, which they later used during the poisoning in the UK Father and the daughter of the Skripals. Passports were issued to the fictional names of Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov.
The publicly declared purpose of their trip was to visit the ammunition warehouse in Vrbetitsa, where they booked places in advance. Anyone who wants to visit the object for business reasons must send an email in advance.
The passports that were sent in the Vrbetitsa were not the ones with which Chepiga and Mishkin crossed the state border. These were accompanying documents, this time issued in the name of Ruslan Tabarov (in the case of Chepiga) and Nikolai Pla (in the case of Mishkin).
After a short stay in Prague, Chepig and Mishkin went to Northern Moravia, where they stayed in a small hotel in Ostrava. The operator issued permission to enter the Vrbetitsa for the period from October 13 to 17. The explosion in the ammunition warehouse No. 16 occurred on October 16 at 9:25.
According to the police, at the time when Chepig and Mishkin were to be in the tabble, weapons were unloaded here, which was supposed to buy one of the large Bulgarian weapons. He supplied weapons to Ukraine.
We are talking about the Bulgarian weapon Emilian Goebrev. In 2015, Russian intelligence officers took part in two attempts to poison this businessman. The first time this happened in the capital of Sofia, the second time a month later in its cottage on the Black Sea.
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