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US charges five alleged Russian intelligence operatives in terror and assassination plot network

Politico Europe · 2026-09-16
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US prosecutors charged five people, all still at large, with conspiracy to finance terrorism and, in three cases, murder for hire on behalf of Russian intelligence. The indictment says recruiters offered $40,000 to kill a Russian dissident in the US and $25,000 to kill one in Lithuania, and discussed attacking a warehouse or electrical substation in countries supporting Ukraine, with operations allegedly also coordinated in Prague and Lithuania in 2024.

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Source: Politico Europe · via ahirlevel.hu