US secret services believe elements of the Ukrainian government were responsible for the August attack that killed political commentator Daria Dugina, the daughter of Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, near Moscow.
According to The New York TimesInformation about Ukraine’s involvement in the US government was shared last week. US officials say they had no prior knowledge of the operation and have already warned the Ukrainian government.
The sources quoted by the newspaper spoke on condition of anonymity, but did not confirm which elements of the Ukrainian government had authorized the operation, nor if President Volodymyr Zelensky was aware of it.
Although these attacks have “little impact on the battlefield”, the United States claims that they have “high symbolic value”, which could lead to an escalation of the conflict, including attacks on senior Ukrainian officials carried out by Moscow.
According to The New York Times, for the United States, this type of action is therefore “an unnecessary provocation” to Moscow and does not have any advantage on the battlefront.
Asked about the new information from the US secret services, Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian president, said: “Once again, I emphasize that any murder in times of war, in one country or another, must have some practical meaning in order to meet some specific”. objective, tactical or strategic. Someone like Dugina is neither a tactical nor a strategic target for Ukraine.”
Daria Dugina was killed in the explosion of the car she was driving in the Moscow region in August. Russia has always blamed Ukraine for Daria Dugina’s death, but kyiv has denied any involvement from the start.
Philosopher Alexander Dugin, an ideologue who inspires Vladimir Putin, was supposed to travel with his daughter, but decided at the last minute to go in a different car. Therefore, he was unharmed, but the journalist Darya Dugina, also a supporter of the Russian president, was killed in the car explosion. Thus, some US officials believe that the target of the attack was the ultra-nationalist ideologue.
Dugin, one of Russia’s most prominent voices urging Moscow to escalate the war against Ukraine, has been a leading advocate of an aggressive, imperialist Russia.
Source: TSF
