Russian intelligence services plotted targeted killings in the United States and European nations supporting Ukraine, federal authorities said Tuesday as they announced charges against five people who remain at large. An indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court said a network working for Russian intelligence services has paid and attempted to pay individuals in the United States and in other countries to surveil targets and then kill them. [snip] James C. Barnacle Jr., head of New York’s FBI office, said the bureau disrupted the plans through “relentless work” as members of the Russian Intelligence Services and their affiliates “conspired to intimidate, threaten, or murder people on U.S. soil and around the world.” Darren B. Cox, head of the Washington office of the FBI, cited “extraordinary work by multiple FBI field offices, components, and partner agencies that collectively disrupted Russia’s attempts to conduct violent acts in our nation’s capital and throughout the United States.” [snip] It called the Russian intelligence services network “one arm” of the Russian Federation’s apparatus designed to carry out external attacks, including murder, around the world. Previously, the release said, the network had focused on Russian dissidents and defectors but more recently had targeted people and infrastructure in nations perceived to be allies of Ukraine. Recently, it said, members of the network have tried to recruit people in the United States. [snip] After conducting the surveillance and providing photographs and videos of locations associated with the intended victim to one of the men charged in the indictment, the U.S. resident turned down the $40,000 that was offered to “eliminate” or “disappear” the target. When the offer was rejected, the alleged intelligence operative who made the offer tried to recruit several other people in the United States to finish the job by offering them substantial amounts of money, the indictment said. (*) Full article: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/russia-intelligence-services-murder-plots/2026/09/15/id/1269565/ Post navigation Federal judge says Soros-backed district attorney may have committed obstruction of justice — and refers him to the feds Paxton Announces Arrests of Seven Noncitizens in Election Fraud Investigation
