The Bellingcat Podcast

After discovering the nationality of a group of soldiers filmed committing warcrimes, a global team of open source investigators attempts to zero in on the spot where the killings took place. For any hope of justice, the team must uncover the identities of the soldiers and find out why four unarmed women and children had to die. For more information on this investigation and our other work please visit www.bellingcat.com [http://www.bellingcat.com] To support our work please donate via www.patreon.com/bellingcat [http://www.patreon.com/bellingcat] The Bellingcat Podcast is produced by Novel www.thisisnovel.co.uk [http://www.thisisnovel.co.uk]

A horrifying video goes viral online, appearing to show women and children being gunned down by a death squad. The video is a mystery - no one is sure where or when it was filmed, who the victims are or why they were killed. With little to go on, open source investigators around the world start hunting for the killers. For more information on this investigation and our other work please visit www.bellingcat.com [http://www.bellingcat.com] To support our work please donate via www.patreon.com/bellingcat [http://www.patreon.com/bellingcat] The Bellingcat Podcast is produced by Novel www.thisisnovel.co.uk [http://www.thisisnovel.co.uk]

In this week's BellingChat, Bellingcat's Christo Grozev joins us to discuss the ongoing MH17 trial in the Netherlands, our latest investigation linking the FSB to assassinations plots from Berlin to Istanbul, and the latest revelations from the US about the GRU's Unit 29155's involvement in placing bounties on US service members in Afghanistan.

The new BBC series The Salisbury Poisonings tells the story of the impact of the Skripal assassination attempt on the people of Salisbury, but what do we know about the two suspects identified by UK authorities? Bellingcat's Christo Grozev explains the work he did to reveal the true identities of the Skripal suspects, how he identified their commanders, and how that connected to other Russian spy operations, from assassination to coup attempts, across Europe.

Eliot Higgins is joined by Bellingcat’s Charlotte Godart, Nick Waters and Robert Evans to discuss their recent work documenting police violence against journalists during the recent protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd. Later, we’re joined by Bellingcat’s Natalia Antonova and Roman Dobrokhotov from The Insider to discuss RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan‘s sharing of racist advice to George Lloyd protesters on her Telegram channel, and RT’s bizarre defence of her acti