(Reuters) – The United States believes Russian intelligence was behind an April chemical attack on a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Russian journalist vital of the Kremlin, U.S. information organizations reported on Thursday.

Dmitry Muratov, editor of the investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, has stated that whereas he was on a practice he was splashed with crimson paint containing acetone by an attacker who informed him, “that is for you from our boys.”

Muratov on the time posted images of his face, chest and fingers lined in crimson oil paint, which he stated badly burned his eyes due to the acetone.

The New York Times and Washington Post each reported on Thursday that U.S. intelligence businesses had concluded that Russian intelligence operatives orchestrated the attack, which occurred on a Moscow-Samara practice.

Novaya Gazeta introduced earlier than the attack that it was suspending its on-line and print actions till the tip of what Russia calls its “particular operation” in Ukraine.

The Russian authorities had twice warned the paper over its protection of the battle, which Russia says is geared toward degrading Ukraine’s army capabilities and rooting out what it calls harmful nationalists.

Ukrainian forces have mounted stiff resistance and the West has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia in an effort to power it to withdraw its forces.

(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Robert Birsel)