In the wake of explosions damaging the Nordstream pipelines which led to Russia and the United States exchanging claims of the other's responsibility over their sabotage, the countries find themselves in an unusual position on another high profile attack. For the first time since her assassination in August, the United States has acknowledged intelligence which has led them to believe that the Ukrainian government was responsible for her murder.
Dugina was identified as the victim of a vehicular explosion Dugina's death that occurred approximately 20 km west of Moscow around 9:45 pm local time on August 20th. As the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, the intellectual vanguard of the Eurasian political philosophy which many have see as the ideological basis of Moscow's policy making, the presumption of her death was immediately suspected to be an assassination.
That suspicion was confirmed shortly following the explosion which left her dead as the Russian FSB deduced that the Ukrainian Special Services was behind the attack the following day.
"As a result of a complex of urgent operational-search measures, the Federal Security Service has solved the murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, born in 1992," they announced, going on to emphasize the culpability of the Ukrainian government by stating that "the crime was prepared and committed by the Ukrainian special services[.]"
Ukrainian officials immediately washed their hands of the incident. However, the FSB offered intelligence identifying the suspected assailant and her entry into Russia as part of an apparent mission to surveil Dugina in the month preceding her death. When the FSB issued its findings pinning the assassination of Ukrainian Special Services agent Natalia Vovk, the agency also detailed its conclusions that she had fled the the EU member-state of Estonia to escape her alleged crimes.
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