This is stated in a joint investigation by The Insider and Bellingcat.

Journalists found this out by studying the flights of

Stralkov

and his wife.

For example, in December 2014, a husband and wife flew together from Moscow to Rostov-on-Don and back.

Stralkov's wife, Miroslava Reginskaya

, a native of Donbass

, booked tickets together with one Sergei Runov, born on May 12, 1970.

Runov is the surname of Stralkov's grandfather on his mother's side.

According to the investigation, a person with such a surname, name and date of birth does not exist.

The authors conclude that the passport in this name could have been issued by the FSB.

They found 6 more fake Russian domestic passports from the same series at the air base.

Some of these individuals were identified by The Insider and Bellingcat as FSB employees.

Among them is

Artem Vinogradov,

who in March 2015 flew together with a certain

Mikhail Stepanov

(real name

Shvets

), a person whom investigators believe was involved in the poisoning of opposition leader

Alexei Navalny.

The authors also found the passport of the "cover-up" of the same series from the former head of the so-called "LPR"

Ihor Platnytskyi.

He, like Strelkov, flew on it with his wife

Larisa Platnitskaya

(who reportedly died in 2020).

Igor Stralkov told The Insider that he does not comment on the fact that he has a cover passport, and his wife Miroslava Reginskaya, after listening to the journalists' question, hung up the phone.

  • During his first press conference in Donbass, Stralkov stated that he was a FSB colonel until March 31, 2013, after which he was "dismissed from the unit."

    After returning from Donbass, Stralkov often criticized the course of the military operation in Ukraine and personally the former assistant to the President of the Russian Federation

    Vladislav Surkov.

  • On July 15, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia declared the work of Bellingcat and The Insider "undesirable", stating that their activities pose a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and security of the Russian Federation.