US believes – Ukrainians were behind an assassination in Russia

10:04 08.10.2022 •

American officials said they were not aware of the plan ahead of time for the attack that killed Daria Dugina and that they had admonished Ukraine over it, writes “The New York Times”.

United States intelligence agencies believe parts of the Ukrainian government authorized the car bomb attack near Moscow in August that killed Daria Dugina in her car (photo), the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist, an element of a covert campaign that U.S. officials fear could widen the conflict.

The United States ‘took no part in the attack’, either ‘by providing intelligence or other assistance’, officials said. American officials also said they were ‘not aware of the operation ahead of time and would have opposed the killing had they been consulted’.

Afterward, American officials admonished Ukrainian officials over the assassination, they said.

The closely held assessment of Ukrainian complicity, which has not been previously reported, was shared within the U.S. government last week.

Ukraine denied involvement in the killing immediately after the attack, and senior officials repeated those denials when asked about the American intelligence assessment.

Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine’s security services have demonstrated their ability to reach into Russia to conduct sabotage operations. The killing of Ms. Dugina, however, would be one of the boldest operations to date.

Some American officials suspect Ms. Dugina’s father, Aleksandr Dugin, a Russian philosopher and ultranationalist, was the actual target of the operation, and that the operatives who carried it out believed he would be in the vehicle with his daughter.

The American officials who spoke about the intelligence did not disclose which elements of the Ukrainian government were believed to have authorized the mission, who carried out the attack, or whether President Volodymyr Zelensky had signed off on the mission.

…This article is a very serious attack on Zelensky personally. Now the Americans directly named the address of the terrorists.

 

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