The White House is expected to condemn the Kremlin publicly for its involvement, and the Department of Justice will announce charges against those involved in the Russian campaign, CNN reported.

U.S. officials point to RT, a Russian state media network, and Social Design Agency, which has already faced sanctions from the Treasury Department for running fake news sites in Europe, as the main culprits behind the spread of propaganda and disinformation in the 2024 election cycle. RT America, an affiliate of RT, was ordered by the DOJ to register as a foreign agent in 2017 after officials for the outlet assisted in spreading Russian propaganda during the 2016 election. 

In July, an RT employee faced accusations from the DOJ for passing disinformation about the war in Ukraine through 1,000 social media accounts pretending to be U.S. citizens.

At the direction of Attorney General Merrick Garland, the DOJ’s Election Threats Task Force will be holding a meeting with senior law enforcement leaders, including FBI Director Chrisopher Wray, in attendance.

The latest instance of election interference was done as a collaboration among both Russian nationals and Americans.

Russia’s election interference has been a prominent problem facing law enforcement and election officials since 2016 when hackers leaked documents from the Democratic National Committee regarding Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

In 2018, the Justice Department charged 13 Russians with interfering with the 2017 election. 

Between 2020 and 2022, U.S. intelligence officials said Russia has meddled in at least 11 elections across nine democracies.

These latest accusations against Russia come as just last month Iranians hacked into former President Donald Trump’s campaign and released internal documents to the media.

Last month, the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a joint statement highlighting concerns over “increasingly aggressive Iranian activity” in this election. 

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China is another concern for officials, with numerous online accounts created with the intent to distribute propaganda.

“We can absolutely expect that our foreign adversaries will remain a persistent threat, attempting to undermine American confidence in our democracy and our institutions and to sow partisan discord,” Jen Easterly, director of the CISA, told reporters Tuesday. “And that’s why it is up to all of us not to let our foreign adversaries be successful.”