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Interesting: "The Czech police on Saturday evening released images of two men wanted for serious offences. The two are Anatoly Chepig and Alexander Mishkin, the same Russian GRU agents believed to have carried out a failed assassination attempt using the poison Novichok in Salisbury in the UK in 2018."

The KGB seems like a very efficient operation.

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From what I read on this it is surprising to me that the Russian involvement has not been uncovered earlier.

The two operatives were official visitors to the warehouse at around the time of the incident. Scans of their fake passports have been on file ever since. It seems they could have easily been recognized as GRU operatives at the latest when their faces became public knowledge in 2018.

The KGB was dissolved in 1991 and later succeeded by the SVR (foreign intelligence) and FSB (federal security).

The GRU is the military intelligence agency.

The KGB changed its name. The staff and methods did not change.

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