Russia welcomes report on killing of pro-Putin journalist Darya Dugina in August, as Kyiv denies involvement

The Kremlin has welcomed a news report that US intelligence believes a bomb attack that killed a Russian commentator and journalist outside Moscow in August was authorised by Ukrainian government officials.

The report in the New York Times about the car bomb attack on Darya Dugina has not been confirmed and has been denied by Kyiv. The report said “parts” of the Ukrainian government were involved in the 20 August blast outside Moscow and that the US had no prior knowledge, provided no intelligence or other assistance, would have opposed it and “admonished” Ukrainian officials about it afterwards.

Continue reading…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You May Also Like

Heathrow hit by £2bn loss as airport calls for more Covid support

Passenger numbers slumped to 22.1m in 2020, the smallest annual total since…

As China threat rises, can Aukus alliance recover from rancorous birth?

Questions mount about pact’s ultimate purpose and implications for other Asean countries…

Nobel prize winner Giorgio Parisi: ‘There’s a lack of trust in science – we need to show how it’s done’

The Italian physicist puts the fiendishly tricky theory of complex systems in…

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 339 of the invasion

Fresh wave of Russian attacks in east and south Ukraine kill at…