Assessment that ‘parts of the Ukraine
government’ authorised bombing was shared last
week, according to the New York Times.
By Al Jazeera
October 06, 2022:
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Intelligence agencies in the United
States believe "parts" of the Ukrainian
government authorised the car bomb attack near
Moscow in August that
killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of a
prominent Russian nationalist, according to a
report in the New York Times.
The assessment of
alleged Ukrainian complicity was shared within
the US government last week, the paper reported
on Wednesday.
The US officials who spoke about the
intelligence did not disclose which elements of
the Ukrainian government were believed to have
authorised the mission, who carried out the
attack, or whether President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
signed off on it. Those briefed on the Ukrainian
action and the US response spoke on the
condition of anonymity, in order to discuss
secret information and matters of sensitive
diplomacy, the report said.
Dugina, a 29-year-old commentator with a
nationalist Russian TV channel, was
killed when a bomb exploded in her car in
August, in an attack that Russia blamed on
Ukrainian “special
services“.
Ukraine’s government denied involvement at
the time, and when asked about the US
intelligence assessment, Zelenskyy adviser
Mykhailo Podolyak reiterated those denials.
“Again, I’ll
underline that any murder during wartime in some
country or another must carry with it some kind
of practical significance,” Podolyak told The
New York Times. “It should fulfill some specific
purpose, tactical or strategic. Someone like
Dugina is not a tactical or a strategic target
for Ukraine.”
US officials also told the paper that they
lack a complete picture of the competing power
centres in the Ukrainian government, including
the military, the security services and
Zelenskyy’s office. This may explain why some
parts of the Ukrainian government may not have
been aware of the plot, it added.
The US took no part in the attack, had no
prior knowledge of it and “admonished” Ukrainian
officials afterwards, the New York Times said,
adding that the US would have opposed the
killing if it had been aware of the plan.
Dugina’s father,
Alexander Dugin, is a prominent
ultranationalist and staunch supporter of
Russia’s war in Ukraine, and some believe he was
the intended target.
Russian media said Dugin switched cars with
his daughter shortly before the blast, which
ripped the Toyota Land Cruiser apart as she was
driving through the outskirts of Moscow after
attending a cultural festival. Dugina was also a
prominent supporter of the Ukraine invasion,
known as a ‘special military operation’ in
Russia.
Russia has not
taken any specific retaliation over the killing,
but the US is concerned that such attacks could
provoke Moscow into carrying out its own attacks
against senior Ukrainian officials, the New York
Times said.
Russia’s intelligence agency, the FSB, has
said a Ukrainian woman, who entered Russia in
July and rented an apartment where Dugina lived,
was behind the bombing. She fled Russia after
the attack, according to the agency.
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Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina, also known
under the pen name Daria Platonova, was a
Russian journalist, political scientist and
activist. She was the daughter of Aleksandr
Dugin, a far-right political philosopher.
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