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Sep 16, 2026

DOJ charges five Russian intelligence agents with global assassination plots including in US

The U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against five Russian intelligence operatives accused of orchestrating murder-for-hire plots and attacks around the world, including a $25,000 contract to kill a dissident in Lithuania and a plot targeting a Kremlin critic in Washington, D.C. All suspects remain at large.

Sep 16, 2026·8 sources
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  • ▪On September 15, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment in Manhattan charging five alleged Russian intelligence operatives with conspiracy to finance terrorism.
  • ▪In late June 2025, Kirill Khrameev met an unnamed U.S. citizen at the Estonia-Russia border and paid him $200 to take photos of a target's address in Vilnius, Lithuania.
  • ▪The five defendants charged in the September 2026 indictment are Yuri Khrameev, Kirill Khrameev, Oemis Romagoza Durruthy, Yaidel Delgado Suarez, and Angel Eduardo Castro.

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