There are questions about the documentation produced to back the identification.
People from his village see the face of the boy they knew in Chepiga's service photo. Since the story broke, there has been the inevitable clash of claim and counterclaim.
On the face of it, Bellingcat did an exemplary and imaginative job of hunting through academy class records, phone books and webpages to identify “Ruslan Boshirov” as Anatoly Chepiga, the 30-year-old veteran of the Spetsnaz special forces, colonel and decorated Hero of the Russian Federation. Does this spell a new era of the international intelligence game? It seems as if one of the two alleged agents sent to try to kill Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal has been unmasked, not by the conventional media or a government agency, but by online citizen investigation outfit Bellingcat.