The case of the murder of the daughter of the famous philosopher Alexander Dugin, nicknamed “Putin’s Mind”, returns to the fore again, after US officials revealed that US intelligence agencies believe that parties in the Ukrainian government were involved in the assassination that took place last August.
Officials made clear that the United States did not participate in this attack, whether by providing intelligence or other assistance.
They also stressed that they were not aware of the operation in advance and would have opposed it had they been consulted, blaming Ukrainian officials for the assassination, according to a report by the American newspaper “New York Times”.
Kyiv denies
Meanwhile, officials shared the careful assessment of Ukraine’s previously unreported involvement within the US government last week.
In turn, Ukraine denied involvement in the plot immediately after the attack, and senior officials repeated this denial when asked about the US intelligence assessment.
Daria Dugin
In addition, US officials have expressed frustration with Ukraine’s lack of transparency about its military and secret plans, especially on Russian soil.
Some US officials suspect that Daria Dugina’s father, the Russian thinker Alexander Dugin, was the actual target of the operation and that the activists who carried out the operation believed he would be in the car with his daughter.
No information about the mission
The officials who spoke about the intelligence did not disclose which elements of the Ukrainian government were believed to have authorized the mission, who carried out the attack, or whether President Volodymyr Zelensky signed off on the mission.
They also did not mention who in the US government issued the warnings, or who in the Ukrainian government was handed over, and they did not know what Ukraine’s response would be.
The murdered Daria and her father, the most influential in Putin
It is noteworthy that Daria, who was killed in the explosion of her car in the outskirts of Moscow last August, and who was also known as Platonova, was a strong supporter of her father’s ideas, especially the Russian military operation that was launched on Ukrainian soil on February 24.
As editor-in-chief of United World International, she also widely promoted the Kremlin’s version of the conflict with Kyiv, and warned Ukraine of a grim fate if it joined NATO, which Moscow has seen as a spearhead against it since last February.