US charges five people over alleged Russian plots
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The United States has charged five men with conspiring to intimidate, threaten, or murder people on U.S. soil and abroad. Prosecutors say the defendants worked on behalf of Russian intelligence services as part of a network that carries out external attacks worldwide. The indictment identifies them as a single arm of the Russian Federation’s apparatus.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- Al Jazeera·US charges five people over alleged Russian plots
Prosecutors said that the group worked on behalf of Russian intelligence services to carry out attacks and murders.
- BBC News·US accuses Russia of trying to kill Ukrainian allies overseas
The FBI says five men "conspired to intimidate, threaten, or murder people on US soil and around the world".
- NPR·DOJ charges Russian agents with plotting attacks, including in US
The indictment says the defendants belong to a network that "is one arm of the Russian Federation's apparatus used to carry out external attacks" worldwide.
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