DUSHANBE, September 27. /TASS/. Kremlin proceeds from the assumption that Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, whom the UK authorities suspect of involvement in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, are civilians, President Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

"We don’t have any other data," he said when a reporter asked him whether the Kremlin insisted on Boshirov being a civilian.

"This [information published by the British media - TASS] is an informal investigation and we don’t know to what degree it matches reality," Peskov said.

"We proceed from the data these civilians [Petrov and Boshirov] made public themselves," he said. "The data we have at the moment confines to what President [Vladimir Putin] said and what the two men themselves said."

Putin said at the beginning of September the authorities had identified the two men whom the UK suspected of involvement in the poisoning of the former Russian intelligence officer and British spy, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. He did not specify their names and only said they were civilians and they would appear on the media themselves.

Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov answered his appeal and spoke in an interview with RT channel. They denied all the charges against them and said they ran their own business.

Reports in the British mainstream media, including The Daily Telegraph said on Wednesday the ‘investigative journalism’ group Bellingcat had identified the genuine name of the man, whose alleged alias was Ruslan Boshirov.

The articles described him as a ‘highly decorated Russian colonel’ Anatoly Vladimirovich Chepiga, 39, who was made Hero of Russia in 2014.

"Naturally, we’ll verify the information on this soldier and check the lists of those who received awards," Peskov said.

"Many people resemble one another," he said answering a question about the identity of the mystical Col Chepiga. "I can’t say who the man featured in that investigation is because I don’t have the information of this kind."

He promised reporters to verify whether Col Chepiga had received the state award and to release the information on him.

"I don’t know who Col Chepiga actually is and whether or not he really received the award and what award he received but I’ll check the information," Peskov said.

He recommended addressing questions on Russian military people to the Defense Ministry.

Peskov added officials in the Kremlin had familiarized themselves with the investigation, "which the media had made public and which said some people looked like each other."

"We don’t have the information on who the second man [Chepiga] is and we proceed from the information that was given to the public [by Putin, as well as Petrov and Boshirov]," Peskov said as he answered numerous elaborative questions from reporters.

One of the questions why Putin sounded so confidently while saying Petrov and Boshirov were civilians. "This information is available to him [Putin]."

Peskov also mentioned the absence of data on Petrov and Boshirov’s past.

"You and I don’t know anything about the past of these people because it’s outside the scope of our functions and we don’t know whether we speak about the people whom we saw in the RT interview or these are the lookalikes," he said. "We must reckon with the fact.".