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On September 16, 2026, federal prosecutors unsealed a major indictment exposing a Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) transnational assassination network operating in the United States and Europe. Led by a retired Russian intelligence colonel, an active FSB officer, and Cuban/Venezuelan handlers, the ring attempted to outsource the murder of Kremlin dissidents in Washington, D.C. and Vilnius for up to $40,000. Discover how the FBI and European allies dismantled the spy network, exposed its coded communications, and disrupted Russian gray-zone operations on Western soil.
⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - US Indicts 5 Operatives in Secret Russian Assassination Network
02:47 - The Ringleaders: Yuri & Kirill Khrameev, Cuban Operatives, and the RIS Network
06:10 - Recruiting Saboteurs-for-Hire: Codewords, Brooklyn, & Vilnius Plots
09:01 - Operatives at Large: FBI Disruption and International Movement Limits
11:21 - Kremlin Denials & Peskov's "Admission by Omission"
11:58 - Historical Pattern: Rheinmetall Plot, Moldova/Ukraine Cell Arrests, and Center 795
14:35 - OpSec Failures: Center 795 & Unwitting Google Translate Wiretaps
16:07 - Geopolitical Fallout: Impact on US-Mediated Peace Negotiations
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On September 16, 2026, federal prosecutors unsealed a major indictment exposing a Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) transnational assassination network operating in the United States and Europe. Led by a retired Russian intelligence colonel, an active FSB officer, and Cuban/Venezuelan handlers, the ring attempted to outsource the murder of Kremlin dissidents in Washington, D.C. and Vilnius for up to $40,000. Discover how the FBI and European allies dismantled the spy network, exposed its coded communications, and disrupted Russian gray-zone operations on Western soil.
⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - US Indicts 5 Operatives in Secret Russian Assassination Network
02:47 - The Ringleaders: Yuri & Kirill Khrameev, Cuban Operatives, and the RIS Network
06:10 - Recruiting Saboteurs-for-Hire: Codewords, Brooklyn, & Vilnius Plots
09:01 - Operatives at Large: FBI Disruption and International Movement Limits
11:21 - Kremlin Denials & Peskov's "Admission by Omission"
11:58 - Historical Pattern: Rheinmetall Plot, Moldova/Ukraine Cell Arrests, and Center 795
14:35 - OpSec Failures: Center 795 & Unwitting Google Translate Wiretaps
16:07 - Geopolitical Fallout: Impact on US-Mediated Peace Negotiations
Support us directly as we bring you independent, up-to-date reporting on military news and global conflicts by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMilitaryShow/join
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00:01We've always known that Russia is engaged in shady activity.
00:05That's been the case since the Cold War era,
00:07when networks of Russian spies operated all over the world.
00:10Not a lot has changed.
00:12With the former KGB Hawk at its helm,
00:15Russia is as active in the assassination game as it has ever been.
00:20But it's just been caught in a shocking announcement.
00:23The US has just revealed the identities of five people
00:26whom it accuses of operating a secretive assassination network.
00:30Charges have been filed.
00:32Russia's assassins have been exposed.
00:35But this is a story that is only just getting started.
00:38And you're about to find out why.
00:40We'll start with the basics.
00:41On September 16th, the news broke that federal prosecutors in the US
00:45had accused five men of being a part of a network of spies and assassins
00:50who were working together to kill Russian dissidents both in the US and abroad.
00:54The five men are the ringleaders of the network,
00:57with their collective goal being to surveil potential targets
01:00and then recruit would-be assassins to take out those targets.
01:04The charges are varied.
01:06All five of the men are charged with conspiracy to finance terrorism,
01:09which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
01:13Other charges include conspiracy to commit murder for hire,
01:16which can result in multiple punishments,
01:18including fines of up to $250,000,
01:22and prison sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years,
01:26depending on whether personal injury was caused as a result of the conspiracy.
01:30This is huge.
01:31The US has just uncovered an assassination ring operating on its own territory,
01:35and it isn't happy.
01:38And before we go on, we just want to remind you that we're real people
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01:52Speaking about the charges, Attorney General Todd Blanche declared,
01:56It's our job to stop America's adversaries from unleashing violence and terror on American soil,
02:01and that's precisely what we're doing thanks to the work of the FBI
02:04and our Justice Department prosecutors.
02:07The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, added,
02:10As alleged in the indictment,
02:12this plot exposes the lengths to which our adversaries will go to silence its critics
02:16and illustrates the grave threat transnational repression poses to the lives and freedoms
02:21of all who challenge authoritarian regimes.
02:24There are plenty of other comments made by prominent US figures, but the gist is clear.
02:29The US won't tolerate anybody, least of all Russia,
02:32attempting to carry out terrorist activities on American soil.
02:36In the space of a single indictment,
02:38the relationship between the US and Russia has been set back tremendously.
02:43Putin will be seething.
02:44He thought he could play the US like a fiddle,
02:47as he tried to manipulate his way into a stronger bargaining position for peace talks with Ukraine.
02:52This isn't the case anymore.
02:54Russia's activities have been exposed, and the US is not happy about it.
02:59Here's what we know about the plot so far.
03:01Three of the defendants are members of Russia's intelligence services.
03:05They include a father and son duo, Yuri and Kirill Kramiev,
03:09as well as a Cuban national named Oemis Romagoza Doruthi.
03:14Yuri is also referred to as Colonel Yuri, is 63 years old and has a long history of participating in
03:20recruitment of individuals to commit murder.
03:22His son appears to be a rotten chip off the old block and is currently an officer in the Federal
03:27Security Service of Russia, or FSB.
03:30As for Oemis Romagoza Doruthi, he is a member of the Cuban diaspora, the US Justice Department alleges.
03:37These are Cubans who live outside of their home island.
03:40Right now, Doruthi lives in Russia, though he is known to coordinate attacks for Russian intelligence.
03:44It's also interesting that there is a Cuban national involved.
03:48It was only in May that the US claimed that both Russia and China were expanding their spy operations in
03:53Cuba,
03:54with both increasing the number of agents they have operating in the Republic, as well as upgrading their electronic surveillance
04:00facilities.
04:00American intelligence has identified 18 known signals intelligence sites operated by these two countries in Cuba,
04:08and it's very possible that Russia, at least, has created some sort of recruitment pipeline,
04:12leading to Cuban nationals becoming part of the Russian intelligence services.
04:16These three men, along with the other two we're about to reveal, have been operating in the US since at
04:22least 2024,
04:23and are part of what the US Justice Department calls the RIS network.
04:27The network is one of several arms of Russia's intelligence apparatus focused on carrying out external attacks up to, and
04:34including, murder.
04:36One of its chief aims is to locate and kill Russian dissidents and defectors, with a particular focus on allies
04:42of Ukraine.
04:43The RIS network has reportedly attempted to recruit individuals from all over the US to carry out surveillance operations and
04:50orchestrate assassination attempts.
04:52These three men appear to have been the ringleaders of the operation.
04:56The other two work more actively on the ground.
04:59Yaidel Delgado Suarez is accused of working as a recruiter for the shadowy network,
05:04with his job being to find people in the US who are willing to carry out surveillance and murder in
05:09return for money.
05:10Finally, the fifth defendant, Angel Eduardo Castro, aged 22, is accused of actively recruiting a would-be assassin,
05:18who was tasked with killing a Russian dissident believed to be living in Washington DC.
05:23That dissident hasn't been named by the US.
05:26Beyond people that Russia wants to have wiped off the map,
05:28this network has also been trying to recruit people who are willing to surveil and potentially sabotage military infrastructure in
05:35Europe.
05:36That opens up all sorts of interesting avenues.
05:39It's no secret that Europe is dealing with a major hybrid warfare problem related to Russia right now.
05:45Drones, some armed with explosives, were discovered at Leipzig airport throughout August.
05:49August alone saw several European countries record attacks,
05:53including a major fire at a warehouse owned by defense firm Emco in Bulgaria,
05:58and an attempted arson attack against a drone facility owned by Ukraine in Slovakia.
06:04That's just a tiny sample of several years of attempted and sometimes successful sabotage efforts in Europe,
06:11which the BBC says are mostly being carried out by sabotage for hire.
06:15Could this network of five men in the US have been responsible for some of these attacks?
06:20It's possible, though the US isn't providing any specifics in these cases.
06:24That isn't to say there are no specifics related to the charges.
06:28According to the Guardian, at least one person the network hired named US Resident One in the indictment,
06:34was sent the details of two locations associated with the targeted victim,
06:38along with receiving explicit instructions on how to conduct surveillance.
06:42That would-be murderer was promised between 1,000 and 1,500 to conduct the surveillance work.
06:48After providing the photographs the network wanted,
06:51this same person was then offered $40,000 to make the target disappear.
06:57However, that offer was rejected,
06:59perhaps because the individual saw their opportunity to make a quick buck,
07:02quickly devolve into something that would have put them at incredible risk,
07:06while leaving the Russian spies free to continue their operations.
07:09The New York Times adds that this particular plot involved the use of voice messages,
07:14and that the resident in question was a Venezuelan citizen living in Brooklyn,
07:19who said that he was willing to take the picks, but not do the other stuff.
07:24Suarez, who appears to have been the go-between for the citizen and Yuri Kremeyev,
07:28then asked the citizen if he knew anybody who wants to do construction.
07:32That appears to have been a code word.
07:35Construction seems to have been a running theme in these messages,
07:37as another saw the Russian network ask if somebody was willing to
07:41measure a plot of land and provide measurements.
07:44Something similar happened in Lithuania in June 2025.
07:48There, the younger Kremeyev was accused of meeting an American
07:51at the border between Russia and Estonia,
07:54where he offered $200 to this person to take photographs of a specific address
07:58in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.
08:01That American was then put in touch with the elder Kremeyev,
08:04who asked the individual to kill somebody at the address,
08:07who was telling the media and common people that the Russians are the aggressors.
08:12Several methods were suggested, including stabbing the victim,
08:16or more brutally, throwing a bottle of gasoline at them.
08:20As in Brooklyn, the recruit refused, only to be offered a simpler job
08:24of setting fire to facilities in NATO countries that are helping Ukraine.
08:28The scale of this work is truly astounding.
08:32The five men accused clearly ran a global operation
08:35and were actively travelling all over the US and Europe
08:38to recruit people to their cause.
08:40It's debatable how successful these recruitment efforts were.
08:44In both of the cases we've shared,
08:46the recruit was willing to take photos
08:47but bulked at the idea of actually killing people on behalf of Russia.
08:51But these are just the incidents we know about.
08:53The big question is how many of this network's plots end up being successful.
08:57The FBI wants to know the answers
08:59and it will want to get to those answers as soon as possible.
09:03So, interviews are going to be scheduled with the men who have been charged, right?
09:07Here's where we see the twist in the tale.
09:09But before we reveal what that twist is,
09:11this is a reminder that you're watching the military show.
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09:22The twist is this.
09:23You may have noticed that we've used the words
09:25charged and accused throughout this video.
09:28However, we haven't used the word arrested.
09:31That's because all of the five men that the US just exposed are still at large.
09:35None of them have been caught,
09:37though the FBI claims that it has disrupted their wider plot.
09:40Presumably that means that all five have now escaped the US,
09:44likely heading back to Russia.
09:45We can only speculate about this situation.
09:47Perhaps the RIS network became aware of the FBI's investigation into its activities
09:52before the net could be closed around them,
09:54giving them a chance to escape.
09:56Or it's possible that the FBI has only learned key information
09:59after the men had already left,
10:01leaving them unable to make arrests.
10:03Either way, all five men have escaped punishment for their actions,
10:07at least when it comes to US prison sentences.
10:10However, none will be able to enter the US again without risking arrest.
10:14That's a small victory, albeit not the full victory the FBI would have preferred.
10:18The five men will be severely limited in their utility to Russia from now on.
10:22We can assume all necessary identifying information has been passed on to America's partners in Europe,
10:27which means the would-be assassins are going to have a very hard time operating on any soil,
10:32other than their own, from now on.
10:35Alarm bells will be ringing throughout the Kremlin.
10:37Putin's inner circle will be panicking,
10:39and questions are going to be asked about how much the US truly knows.
10:43After all, this is just what the US Justice Department has revealed publicly.
10:47For all anybody knows, the US has a lot more names than the five that it has just burned,
10:51and it may be investigating similar plots and networks as we speak.
10:55But if Russia is panicking, it's trying its best not to show any of that panic outwardly.
11:00The Russian embassy in the US has yet to comment on the case,
11:04which is a tried and true Russian tactic.
11:06When you're caught with your hand in the cookie jar,
11:08simply don't say anything and pretend it never happened.
11:11That same embassy has long been a part of the general Russian narrative,
11:14which has involved consistent rejections of any accusations
11:18that Russia is orchestrating assassination attempts on foreign soil.
11:21But this time, the embassy isn't saying anything.
11:24Perhaps it knows that the evidence is stacked to a level that it can't be denied,
11:28so it's staying quiet instead of saying anything that could make the situation worse.
11:32Outside of the US, Russia is providing a little bit more of a response,
11:36but it's not revealing much.
11:38Putin has deployed his favorite mouthpiece, Dmitry Peskov,
11:41to comment on America's accusations.
11:43His statement is essentially that the US hasn't provided any evidence for its claims,
11:48as though America is just going to tell Russia exactly what it's found and how.
11:52Until we've heard and seen any convincing evidence and arguments based on something tangible,
11:57we do not consider it necessary to comment on these reports, Peskov declared.
12:01So basically, no comment with more words attached.
12:05Notably, Peskov didn't say, we didn't do it.
12:08An admission by omission, perhaps.
12:10While Russia is trying to keep quiet and pretend that it had nothing to do with this network of spies,
12:14saboteurs and would-be assassins, the rest of the world will be looking at America's revelations
12:19and seeing that they fit with a pattern of accusations against Russia that spans many years.
12:24As NBC points out, this is far from the first time that Russia has been accused of using intelligence operatives
12:30to attempt to orchestrate assassinations on foreign soil.
12:34There are literal decades of accusations we could pull from to demonstrate this,
12:38but we'll use a couple that have been made since Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
12:43In July 2024, the news broke that US intelligence had revealed a Russian plot to kill Armin Papirga,
12:51who is the CEO of Germany's largest arms company, Rheinmetall.
12:55Of course, Peskov was on hand to deny that such a plot existed, stating,
12:59It's all presented in the style of another fake story, so such reports cannot be taken seriously.
13:04How ironic, coming from the mouth of somebody who is a key part of Russia spreading fake stories all over
13:09the world,
13:10Rheinmetall itself kept relatively quiet, stating that it doesn't comment on matters of corporate security.
13:16And German political figures, though angry, tended to shy away from direct accusations against Russia.
13:22One of the key exceptions was Annalena Baerbock, who was then Germany's foreign minister.
13:26In view of latest reports on Rheinmetall, this is what we have actually been communicating more and more clearly in
13:32recent months.
13:33Russia is waging a hybrid war of aggression, she said during a NATO summit in the US.
13:38Fast forward almost two years, and the news broke that ten people had been arrested in both Moldova and Ukraine,
13:44under accusations of conspiring to kill prominent Ukrainians on orders from Russia.
13:48In a February 20th report, Pravda revealed that seven of the accused were operating in Russia,
13:53with the other three in Moldova.
13:55We saw a similar pattern here.
13:57Russia pays to have people assassinated.
13:59As the Office of the Prosecutor General in Ukraine said,
14:02The members of the organized group assigned their roles clearly, planned the methods of each murder,
14:07prepared the instruments used in the crimes and thought out escape routes.
14:10The Russian side promised the assassins up to $100,000 for each murder.
14:15The amount depended on prominence and influence of the potential victim.
14:19There are other examples.
14:20Just in August, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the authorities had arrested an individual in Poland
14:26who was planning the murder of a US citizen of Ukrainian origin in Warsaw.
14:30On and on it goes.
14:32There is a clear pattern here.
14:34Rather than doing the dirty work directly,
14:36Russia's intelligence services are operating all over Europe and the US,
14:40hiring people to do their bidding.
14:42Not all of these would-be assassins are especially talented.
14:45In a March incident, TVP World reported that members of a supposedly elite Russian hit squad
14:50had been caught in the act.
14:52This squad is named Center 795 and is believed to be responsible for a nerve agent's attack
14:57that happened in 2018 in the UK.
14:59That's yet another instance of Russian assassination attempts carried out on foreign soil.
15:04The group totals about 500 officers pulled from Russia's military intelligence agencies.
15:10However, the group ran into a strange problem as it tried to hire foreign assassins.
15:15Linguistic incompatibility.
15:16The solution these assassins came up with was to use Google Translate to communicate with one another.
15:22Google is a US company.
15:23Its servers are based in America and the FBI can access those servers without requiring a surveillance warrant.
15:30You can probably guess what happened next.
15:32Investigators were able to intercept every instruction and report related to the group's assassination plots,
15:37all of which were timestamped courtesy of Google.
15:40As the insider puts it in its report,
15:43it was, as a source close to the investigation later noted,
15:46even better than a wiretap because it arrived transcribed.
15:50Russia had just been rumbled and it's far from the first time.
15:53As for what happens next,
15:55we'd love to tell you that the US is on the verge of catching the five men it's named on
15:58its federal indictment.
16:00However, the fact that those men have been named without being in custody suggests that they've managed to get out
16:05of the country.
16:05Far more worrying for Russia is the impact these latest revelations will have on the relationship between the US and
16:12Russia.
16:13According to DW, a new round of trilateral talks could be on the verge of happening,
16:17with the US acting as the mediator between Ukraine and Russia.
16:21Those talks could begin as early as October, the outlet says,
16:25as confirmed by the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov,
16:29who says Ukraine is actively preparing for October talks.
16:32There are similar signals coming out of Russia, as Peskov has claimed that Russia hasn't ruled out the possibility of
16:38such talks in the foreseeable future.
16:40Putin would have hoped that his envoys would work overtime to manipulate the US in these talks,
16:45potentially leading to an agreement far more favorable to Russia than it is to Ukraine.
16:50That isn't likely to happen now.
16:52America's mediation will be colored by the fact that a Russian assassin network operating on its own territory has just
16:57been revealed.
16:58The Kremlin isn't going to be able to talk itself out of this one.
17:01And that can only mean good things for Ukraine, as the relationship between Russia and the US continues to crumble.
17:07Of course, there are far more successful assassination plots than the ones revealed in this video.
17:13One of them happened just a couple of weeks before America dropped its bombshell.
17:16Deep inside Russia, the man known as the Butcher of Kyiv was shot.
17:20You can find out all about it by watching our video.
17:23But before you go, everything you see here is researched, verified and produced by real people.
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