2026年9月15日 美国东部时间晚上10:08 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
美国司法部指控多名俄罗斯情报部门人员运营一个“全球暗杀网络”，目标为克里姆林宫批评者——包括今年夏季在美国本土实施的一起 alleged 谋杀密谋。
纽约联邦检察官周二公布了针对五名被他们称为“RIS网络”成员的起诉书，其中包括63岁的前俄罗斯情报上校尤里·赫拉梅耶夫（Yuri Khrameev）、他的儿子基里尔、两名古巴人和一名委内瑞拉人。美国司法部表示，这五名被告据信都居住在俄罗斯，目前仍在逃。
这是美国对手又一次被指控在海外镇压异见人士，包括在美国和北约盟国境内。
起诉书显示，其中一起雇凶杀人密谋发生在今年7月和8月。这名委内瑞拉特工和一名古巴特工据称招募了一名布鲁克林居民，让其拍摄与一名未具名俄罗斯异见人士相关的两处地点的照片和视频，并承诺支付1000至1500美元作为这项“极其严重的任务”的报酬。若要“消灭”或“让目标消失”，则额外提供4万美元。
美国司法部长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）在周二的新闻发布会上表示，这些特工认为这名俄罗斯异见人士居住在华盛顿特区地区。
起诉书称，这名布鲁克林居民愿意帮忙拍照，但表示不愿“做其他事情”——也就是杀害这名异见人士。随后，这些特工据称询问这名布鲁克林居民是否认识其他有兴趣的人。
“请尽快回复我，因为我这边有流程，我的老板也有疑问，”根据起诉书内容，其中一名古巴招募者写道，“我目前在墨西哥有手下，但他们延误了行程。我只需要知道是否有人能接下这项任务。不必今天或明天答复，只需要知道他们能不能做。”
起诉书还指控尤里·赫拉梅耶夫（或称“尤里上校”）及其儿子试图在立陶宛招募一名美国公民，在去年杀害一名据称“散布关于俄罗斯谎言”的人。
法庭文件显示，这名未具名的美国公民在爱沙尼亚与俄罗斯边境与小赫拉梅耶夫会面，对方要求他拍摄目标的住址照片。
他因这次监视行动获得了200美元报酬。随后，尤里·赫拉梅耶夫据称向他开出2.5万美元的报酬，要求其杀害这名对象，理由是对方“散布我的国家的坏话”，并“告诉媒体和普通民众俄罗斯是侵略者”。
当这名美国公民拒绝杀人后，尤里·赫拉梅耶夫据称提议，改为放火烧毁仓库或变电站也可以获得报酬。根据起诉书，这名俄罗斯情报官员表示，他感兴趣的目标是支持乌克兰的国家，并为“严肃的任务”开出“高额报酬”。
RIS网络成员还被指控协助策划了2024年欧洲的两起未遂纵火袭击，包括试图在捷克共和国焚烧公交车，以及针对向乌克兰提供无线电设备的立陶宛设施的密谋。这两起袭击此前曾受到媒体关注，立陶宛和捷克官员当时指责俄罗斯是幕后黑手。
起诉书指控其中一名古巴被告与参与立陶宛和捷克袭击的同伙保持联系，并为他们预订酒店和安排行程。
五名被告均被控恐怖主义融资共谋罪，其中三人——尤里·赫拉梅耶夫以及与今年夏季针对在美人士的密谋相关的古巴和委内瑞拉特工——还被控雇凶杀人共谋罪。
被招募监视俄罗斯特工目标的美国公民和布鲁克林居民未被起诉，起诉书中也未提及他们的姓名。
周二，负责国家安全事务的助理司法部长约翰·艾森伯格（John Eisenberg）在一份声明中称，这些所谓的密谋“严重侵犯了我们的主权，对我国国家安全构成威胁”。
“这些被告据称作为全球暗杀网络的一部分运作，其触角延伸至美国境内，试图招募美国公民和外国人士，按照克里姆林宫的命令实施杀人行为，”艾森伯格说道，并誓言要“杜绝任何外国情报机构在我们伟大的国家自由开展活动的企图”。
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俄罗斯政府长期被指控试图杀害反政府人士，部分案件发生在俄罗斯境外。反对党领导人阿列克谢·纳瓦利内（Alexei Navalny）在2020年幸免于疑似神经毒剂投毒，随后在德国康复，自愿返回俄罗斯，并于两年多后在监狱中死亡。
在此之前，前俄罗斯双面间谍谢尔盖·斯克里帕尔（Sergei Skripal）及其女儿于2018年在英国遭神经毒剂投毒，而克格勃出身的克里姆林宫批评者亚历山大·利特维年科（Alexander Litvinenko）于2006年在英国因放射性物质中毒身亡。俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京（Vladimir Putin）领导的政府长期否认在针对批评者的投毒事件中扮演任何角色。
近年来，随着俄罗斯入侵乌克兰的战事持续，北约国家指责俄罗斯策划在欧洲实施破坏袭击和其他行动。
美国情报机构今年夏季评估认为，普京可能越来越愿意授权在北约领土上采取非战争级别的挑衅行动，其可能的目标是考验该联盟的团结性，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻此前曾报道。据多位知情人士透露，上月中央情报局局长约翰·拉特克利夫（John Ratcliffe）访问莫斯科并与俄罗斯官员会面时，双方讨论的议题包括警告俄罗斯不要袭击北约成员。
其他美国对手也被指控试图在美国境内镇压异见人士。伊朗裔美国记者马西赫·阿利内贾德（Masih Alinejad）在多起疑似谋杀和绑架企图中幸存，而检察官指控中国政府特工在纽约市运营非法“警察局”，以监视和骚扰异见人士。
DOJ accuses Russian intelligence agents of plotting to murder U.S.-based dissident
September 15, 2026 10:08 PM EDT / CBS News
The Justice Department is accusing several members of Russia’s intelligence services of running a “global assassination network” that targeted Kremlin critics — including one alleged murder plot on U.S. soil over the summer.
Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed an indictment Tuesday against five people who belonged to what they called the “RIS Network,” including a 63-year-old former Russian intelligence colonel named Yuri Khrameev, his son Kirill, two Cubans and one Venezuelan. All five defendants are believed to live in Russia and remain at large, the Justice Department said.
It marks the latest alleged attempt by a U.S. adversary to crack down on dissidents abroad, including in the United States and NATO-allied countries.
One of the murder-for-hire plots took place in July and August of this year, the indictment says. The Venezuelan operative and one of the Cuban operatives allegedly recruited a Brooklyn resident to take photos and videos of two locations associated with an unnamed Russian dissident, promising him $1,000 to $1,500 to carry out the “gravely serious work.” Another $40,000 was offered to “eliminate” or “disappear” the target of the surveillance.
The operatives believed the Russian dissident lived in the Washington, D.C., area, Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters at a briefing Tuesday.
The Brooklyn resident was willing to take photos, the indictment said, but expressed unwillingness to “do the other stuff” — as in, kill the dissident. The operatives then allegedly asked the Brooklyn resident if he knew of anybody else who was interested.
“Let me know as soon as possible because I have a chain and my boss has questions,” one of the Cuban recruiters wrote, according to the indictment. “I have people in Mexico right now and theyre delayed. I only need a response to know if someone can do the work. It doesn’t have to be today or tomorrow just need to know if the[y] can.”
The indictment also accuses Yuri Khrameev (or “Colonel Yuri”) and his son of trying to recruit a U.S. citizen in Lithuania to kill somebody who was ostensibly “telling lies about Russia” last year.
The unnamed U.S. citizen met the younger Khrameev at the Estonia-Russia border, where he was asked to take photos of the target’s address, court papers say.
He was paid $200 for the surveillance. Then, Yuri Khrameev allegedly offered him $25,000 to kill the person because he was “spreading dirt about my country” and “telling the media and the common people that the Russians are the aggressors.”
When the U.S. citizen declined to kill the person, Yuri Khrameev allegedly suggested he could instead get paid to set a warehouse or electrical substation on fire. The Russian intelligence officer said he was interested in targeting pro-Ukrainian countries and was offering “serious money for serious work,” according to the indictment.
Members of the RIS Network were also accused of helping facilitate a pair of failed arson attacks in Europe in 2024, including an attempt to set fire to buses in the Czech Republic and a plot against a Lithuanian facility that supplies radio equipment to Ukraine. Both of those attacks had previously drawn media attention, and Lithuanian and Czech officials blamed Russia.
The indictment accuses one of the Cuban defendants of communicating with associates involved in the Lithuanian and Czech attacks and booking hotels and travel for them.
All five of the defendants were charged with terrorism finance conspiracy, and three of them — Yuri Khrameev and the Cuban and Venezuelan operatives linked to the alleged U.S.-based plot over the summer — were charged with murder-for-hire conspiracy.
The U.S. citizen and Brooklyn resident who were allegedly recruited to conduct surveillance of the Russian operatives’ targets weren’t charged or named in the indictment.
In a statement Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg called the alleged plots “a gross violation of our sovereignty and a threat to our national security.”
“These defendants allegedly operated as part of a global assassination network that reached into the United States, attempting to recruit U.S. citizens and foreigners to carry out killings at the behest of the Kremlin,” Eisenberg said, vowing to “stamp out any foreign intelligence services’ attempt to operate freely in our great Nation.”
CBS News has reached out to the Russian Embassy in D.C. for comment.
The Russian government has long been accused of seeking to kill anti-regime figures, in some cases outside Russia’s borders. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny survived a suspected poisoning by a nerve agent in 2020, before recovering in Germany, voluntarily returning to Russia and dying in prison more than two years ago.
Before then, former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent in the U.K. in 2018, and KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko died in the U.K. from a radioactive substance in 2006. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration has long denied any role in poisoning critics.
In recent years, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on, NATO states have accused Russia of plotting sabotage attacks and other operations in Europe.
American intelligence agencies assessed over the summer that Putin could be increasingly willing to authorize provocative actions on NATO territory that fall short of a war, with the likely goal of testing the alliance’s unity, CBS News has reported. When CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow and met with Russian officials last month, the topics under discussion included a warning not to attack NATO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
Other U.S. adversaries have also been accused of seeking to crack down on dissidents on American soil. Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad has survived multiple alleged murder and kidnapping attempts, and prosecutors have alleged that agents of the Chinese government operated an illegal “police station” in New York City to monitor and harass dissidents.
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