US believes elements within Ukraine's government authorized assassination near Moscow, sources say

[Eugene]

Original report: U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia (New York Times)

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Source: CNN

US believes elements within Ukraine’s government authorized assassination near Moscow, sources say

By Natasha Bertrand and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN
Updated 2:50 AM EDT, Thu October 6, 2022

Washington (CNN) — The US intelligence community believes that the car bombing that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of prominent Russian political figure Alexander Dugin, was authorized by elements within the Ukrainian government, sources briefed on the intelligence told CNN.

The US was not aware of the plan beforehand, according to the sources, and it is still unclear who exactly the US believes signed off on the assassination. It is also not clear whether the US intelligence community believes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was aware of the plot or authorized it.

But the intelligence finding, first reported by the New York Times, would seem to corroborate elements of the Russian authorities’ findings that the car bombing was “pre-planned.” Russia had accused Ukrainian nationals of being responsible for the attack, which Ukraine had strongly denied in the aftermath of the explosion.

Asked to comment, a Ukrainian defense intelligence official told CNN Wednesday evening following publication of the latest reports that their agency had no new information on Dugina’s death. Shortly after her death, the same official had told CNN that Ukraine had nothing to do with it.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/politics/us-intelligence-ukraine-dugina-assassination/index.html

[Loki Liesmith]

1. And no tears were shed on this day

[Warpy]

2. Dugin, "Putin's Rasputin" and his daughter were both poisonous

The Ukrainian government might be telling the truth. Or they might not.

I can see survivors of Putin's war who have lost everything doing something like this on their own.

Supposedly, the ones Russia named escaped to Latvia, whose government has been less than forthcoming on their whereabouts, if they're still there instead of booking passage on a cargo ship where the captain asks few questions if his paycheck is padded enough.

I couldn't bring myself to shed any tears for a woman who called for the genocide of ethnic Ukrainians on national TV, Hitler's final solution with mascara and a smile.