Status: 06.10.2022 10:28 a.m
Russian pro-war supporter Dugina was killed in a car bomb attack in late August. US intelligence services are now apparently assuming that parts of the Ukrainian government are behind it.
According to media reports, US secret services assume that parts of the Ukrainian government approved the assassination attempt on Russian war supporter Darya Dugina in Moscow.
It is unclear who approved the attack
The United States had no prior knowledge of the plans, the New York Times newspaper and CNN reported, citing unnamed sources. It is unclear who exactly approved the attack. It is also unclear whether the US secret services believe that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy knew about it or authorized the crime, reports CNN. US officials warned Ukrainian officials about the assassination, it said.
CNN also reports that US intelligence officials suspect that Dugina was driving her father Alexander Dugin’s car the night she was killed and that he was the actual target of the operation.
Father: “Putin’s Brain”
The father of the dead, the radical author Dugin, is repeatedly described by the media and authors as a whisperer for Russian President Putin and as a source of ideas for the attack on Ukraine.
According to CNN, Dugina operated an English and Turkish-language website called United World International, which itself is said to have been part of a broader propaganda effort called “Project Lakhta”. The State Department has accused Project Lakhta of using online “trolls” to interfere in US elections.
The car driven by the daughter of right-wing nationalist Alexander Dugin exploded near Moscow on August 20. Shortly after the crime, the investigators accused a suspect from Ukraine who was put out to search. Russia blames Ukrainian secret services for the attack. Kyiv denies any involvement.