Yury Khoroshenky

Yury Khoroshenky
Yury Khoroshenky
Nationality	Russia
Occupation	intelligence officer
Known for	the handler for American renegade John Mark Dougan

Yury Khoroshenky is a Russian intelligence officer.^[1]^[2]^[3] He is reported to have been the handler for American renegade John Mark Dougan, a blogger who defected to Russia, and has been responsible for deep fakes intended to influence American politics.^[4]

References

↑ Catherine Belton (2024-10-23). "American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show". Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-11-29. A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post.
↑ Tom Uren (2025-05-09). "France says Russian influence operations are getting better, achieving results". Risky.Biz. Retrieved 2026-04-17. According to VIGINUM, the central figure at the heart of Storm-1516 activity is Yury Khoroshenky, a suspected military officer in Russia's military intelligence service GRU, possibly assigned to GRU Unit 29155.
↑ "Analisys of the Russian Information Manipulation DSet Storm-1516". StopFake. 2025-05-07. Retrieved 2026-04-17. VIGINUM’s investigations, based on open source intelligence (OSINT), confirm the involvement of individuals and organisations close to the Russian government, including John Mark DOUGAN, a former American police officer exiled in Russia, as well as members of the PRIGOZHIN and DUGIN ecosystems. VIGINUM was also able to obtain additional information on Yury KHOROSHENKY, a potential officer of the GRU Unit 29155 who has been publicly accused of financing and coordinating Storm-1516.
↑ Gaby Del Valle (2024-10-24). "Russia reportedly paid a former Florida cop to pump out anti-Harris deepfakes". The Verge. Archived from the original on 2024-10-24. Retrieved 2026-04-17. The documents, which mostly focus on the time between March 2021 and August of this year, show that Dougan worked with Yury Khoroshevsky, an officer within the GRU’s Unit 29155

[Wapo2024-10-23-1] Catherine Belton (2024-10-23). "American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show". Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-11-29. A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post.

[RiskyBiz2025-05-09-2] Tom Uren (2025-05-09). "France says Russian influence operations are getting better, achieving results". Risky.Biz. Retrieved 2026-04-17. According to VIGINUM, the central figure at the heart of Storm-1516 activity is Yury Khoroshenky, a suspected military officer in Russia's military intelligence service GRU, possibly assigned to GRU Unit 29155.

[StopFake2025-05-07-3] "Analisys of the Russian Information Manipulation DSet Storm-1516". StopFake. 2025-05-07. Retrieved 2026-04-17. VIGINUM’s investigations, based on open source intelligence (OSINT), confirm the involvement of individuals and organisations close to the Russian government, including John Mark DOUGAN, a former American police officer exiled in Russia, as well as members of the PRIGOZHIN and DUGIN ecosystems. VIGINUM was also able to obtain additional information on Yury KHOROSHENKY, a potential officer of the GRU Unit 29155 who has been publicly accused of financing and coordinating Storm-1516.

[theverge2024-10-24-4] Gaby Del Valle (2024-10-24). "Russia reportedly paid a former Florida cop to pump out anti-Harris deepfakes". The Verge. Archived from the original on 2024-10-24. Retrieved 2026-04-17. The documents, which mostly focus on the time between March 2021 and August of this year, show that Dougan worked with Yury Khoroshevsky, an officer within the GRU’s Unit 29155

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