The American daily newspaper New York Times writes that the United States believes that Ukrainians are behind the murder of Daria Dugina, citing American officials who said on condition of anonymity that they did not know in advance about the plan of the attack that killed Dugina and that they warned Ukraine in connection with this.

“United States intelligence agencies believe that parts of the Ukrainian government authorized an explosion near Moscow in August that killed Daria Dugin, the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist. American officials fear that this could worsen the conflict. “The United States did not participate in the attack, either by providing intelligence or otherwise,” the New York Times quoted.

American officials also said they were unaware of the operation before it took place and that they would have opposed the killing if they had been consulted. They also say they informed Ukrainian officials about the murder.

Some US officials suspect that the real target of the operation was Oleksandr Dugin and that the agents conducting it thought he would be in the car with his daughter.

With this murder, American officials believe that the Ukrainian security forces wanted to prove that they can get close to the top leadership of Russia.

Darya Dugina died after the explosion of the car she was driving. She was in the west near Moscow with his father. Oleksandr Dugin was going to leave there with his daughter in one car, but in the end he left in another car.

Oleksandr Dugin is known as a conservative philosopher and publicist, one of the propagandists of the ideology of “Russian world” and neo-Eurasianism, concepts that proclaim Russia’s dominance over its neighbors, its opposition to the USA and NATO, and the expansion of Russian influence. on the territory of the Eurasian continent.

For many years, Dugin urged Moscow to assert itself more aggressively on the world stage. Since 2014, Dugin has been on the sanctions lists of the EU, and since 2015 – on the sanctions lists of the USA and Canada for his alleged involvement in the annexation of Crimea by Russia. His daughter, who shared his views, was also put on Western sanctions lists.

The death of Daria Dugina has shaken Russia, awakening painful memories of the numerous murders that bloodied the turbulent period after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Ukraine has always denied any involvement

The killing of Daria Dugina, the daughter of the Russian ideologue of ultra-nationalism Oleksandr Dugin, was a “shooting by the Russian special services, Ukraine has nothing to do with it,” Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said on August 23, quoted by EFE and DSNews.

In a statement to the public channel “Kanal 24”, which was picked up by local news agencies, Danilov rejected the accusations of the Russian special services, which placed responsibility for the death of Daria Dugina on Ukraine.

• “We were not interested in this person (Dugin) at all, he was really unimportant to us.
• This is the FSB (Federal Security Service), and now they will say that one of us is involved.
• Our men and women have much more important tasks. We are not at all involved in the explosion that killed this woman, it was the work of the Russian special services,” said Danilov.

The FSB claims that Dugin was killed by a Ukrainian spy

The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) claims that “the crime was prepared and committed by the Ukrainian special services”, and the perpetrator was a citizen of Ukraine, Nataliya Vovk, born in 1979.

She came to Russia on July 23, 2022, together with her daughter Sofia Shaban, born in 2010. “On the day of the crime, Vovk and Shaban took part in the musical and literary festival “Traditions”, where Daria Dugin was present. guest of honor,” the Russian special service said.

On August 21, after the detonation in a remotely operated Toyota Land Cruiser driven by Dugina Vovk and her daughter, they left (from Russia) through the Pskov region to Estonia, the FSB reports.

According to this service, the Ukrainian agent rented an apartment in the building where Daria Dugina also lived, whom she followed for almost a month in planning the attack, and used a car on which she changed three license plates.