Umm not a good play.
Russia sucks. Lots of countries suck, but Russia has to top the list of being fucking losers worldwide trying to pull all kinds of bullshit.
“Russia tries” and “Russia attempts” are like 90% of headlines involving Russia these days. It sucks to suck, but it really sucks being a bottom of the barrel loser that everyone laughs at.
“According to multiple sources, Russian agents made an audacious attempt to assassinate a former Russian agent turned CIA informant on American soil in 2020. The target of the assassination plot was Aleksandr Poteyev, a former Russian agent who defected to the US. Poteyev’s defection led to a significant counterintelligence operation that resulted in the capture and expulsion of nearly a dozen Russian spies embedded along the US eastern seaboard. Evidently, Russian agents sought revenge against defectors like Poteyev living abroad.”