In a poll released Wednesday, the New York Times reveals that Ukrainian officials are behind the August 20 murder of Daria Douguina. She is the daughter of an ultranationalist ideologue close to the Kremlin, she had lost her life after the explosion of a bomb placed under her car. At that moment, all eyes turned to Kyiv, which has always denied any involvement in the attack.
Statements that have never convinced Americans. The members of the intelligence services thus declared to the New York Times that at least some of the Ukrainian officials were behind the attack, without being able to confirm which branch of Kyiv’s forces organized it, or whether Volodymyr Zelensky personally authorized the operation.
american reprimand
These same sources assure the newspaper that Washington, an active supporter of Kyiv since the beginning of the Russian invasion, was never aware of the operation, and would have opposed it if the Ukrainian forces had communicated their intentions to them. Worse yet, the New York Times reveals that Washington allegedly reprimanded Kyiv for resorting to such an attack after this one.
Washington fears that if such operations, which bring no progress on the battlefield, were multiplied, they could be used as a justification for Russian attacks on Ukrainian officials.
always according to New York Times, the frustration would even be significant in the ranks of US intelligence, which considers that Kyiv does not sufficiently share its military plans with its allies. The situation would have improved somewhat this summer, when Ukraine would have sent London and Washington its plans for the September counter-offensive.
Tensions at the top of the Ukrainian state?
This vagueness around Ukraine’s tactical intentions could also be explained by the dynamics at work in Kyiv. Several forces compete in conducting the operations, between the military command, the special forces and the office of Volodymyr Zelensky. Which could explain why only a part of the Ukrainian officials is behind the attack on Daria Duguina.
asked by him New York TimesMykhaïlo Podoliak, special adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky, in any case denied the newspaper’s revelations, assuring that “assassinations like Duguina’s are neither tactical nor strategic for Ukraine.”
On the contrary, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated: “Our special services have proven the role played by Ukraine in this terrorist act.”
Source: BFM TV
