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U.S. Charges Suspects in Alleged Russian Assassination Network Targeting Ukraine’s Allies
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In Short: U.S. prosecutors have charged five individuals allegedly working for Russian intelligence on a network targeting Ukraine's allies, as tensions escalate in the ongoing conflict.
U.S. prosecutors have charged five individuals allegedly working for Russian intelligence as part of a network that allegedly plotted assassinations and terrorist acts in countries supporting Ukraine, according to the Justice Department.
In Ukraine, a Russian drone strike on a bus near the front line in southern Ukraine has killed at least five people and injured seven others, according to Ukrainian officials.
The attack on the bus occurred in Nikopol, which sits on the opposite bank of the Dnipro river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian troops since the start of the war.
In a separate incident, a Russian drone also hit an unnamed industrial facility, according to Diakivnych on Telegram.
What's confirmed
- U.S. prosecutors have charged five individuals allegedly working for Russian intelligence as part of a network that allegedly plotted assassinations and terrorist acts in countries supporting Ukraine, according to the Justice Department.
- In Ukraine, a Russian drone strike on a bus near the front line in southern Ukraine has killed at least five people and injured seven others, according to Ukrainian officials.
- The attack on the bus occurred in Nikopol, which sits on the opposite bank of the Dnipro river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian troops since the start of the war.
- In a separate incident, a Russian drone also hit an unnamed industrial facility, according to Diakivnych on Telegram.
What's still developing
- “Russians cynically struck a passenger bus. They targeted a minibus which carried people going about their daily business,” said Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk region council.
- Meanwhile, at least 250 civilians were killed and 1,596 others injured in Ukrainian attacks inside Russia during the first six months of this year, according to the UN mission, quoting credible Russian open-source reporting – a 121 percent increase in civilian casualties in the country compared with the previous year.
- Both Ukraine and Russia deny deliberately targeting civilians in the war that began with Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
- Elsewhere, an explosion was heard in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Wednesday morning, a witness told the Reuters news agency, while a Russian strike caused a fire at a warehouse there, city authorities said on Telegram.
- Some level crossings were closed as a result of Tuesday's disruption Parts of the Netherlands, including Amsterdam, were hit by major rail disruption after suspected sabotage to the tracks on Tuesday morning, the country's railway infrastructure operator said.
- No suspects or motives have yet been identified.
- The FDF said it was not responsible for the railway sabotage, but said it could not rule out the involvement of individual farmers.
- Russian forces attacked train No. 122, traveling from Kyiv to Mykolaiv, on Wednesday, Sept. 16, according to Ukrzaliznytsia.