The CIA leak on the attack against Dúguina opens cracks between Washington and kyiv

Since the beginning of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, the US has shown unwavering support for the kyiv government. The Biden Administration has led the international community’s response to the invasion, has armed the Ukrainian Army to the teeth – it has sent almost 17,000 million dollars in military aid – and has provided highly valuable intelligence on the positions and activities of the Russian forces. to gain advantage at the front. The support has been reiterated time and time again, in the numerous calls between the presidents of both countries, Biden and Zelensky, and in the official contacts between their diplomatic chiefs and military leaders. Behind the scenes, however, Washington has expressed frustration to kyiv over the lack of transparency about its military plans and covert operations. Paradoxically, the US knew Russia’s military movements more closely – it has extensive intelligence on the matter – than those of its ally. Related News standard Yes Map of the war: kyiv pushes Russian forces back another 20 kilometers further south on the front line in Kherson YES Ukraine has liberated nine more settlements in the last hour in that region and in Lugansk This discomfort does not had been publicly expressed clearly until now. But the patience of the Biden Administration has been exceeded with the attack on Daria Dúguina last August in Moscow. Dúguina is the daughter of Alexander Dugin, an ultra-nationalist agitator, a staunch ally of Vladimir Putin, an ideologue of imperial Russia and a defender of an aggressive response to Ukraine. Her daughter was killed by a bomb installed in her car, but everything suggests that he was the target of the attack. This week, the US has leaked through ‘The New York Times’ that its Intelligence has concluded that the Government of Ukraine was behind the attack. From the beginning, the Putin regime determined that the attack was the work of the “Ukrainian special services” and accused a Ukrainian woman of planting the bomb and then fleeing to Estonia. There were other versions, such as that those responsible were members of the so-called National Republican Army, who claimed responsibility for the attack. kyiv denied at all times its participation. Mikhailo Podoliak, Zelensky’s adviser, assured that Moscow’s accusations reflected the “fictional world” in which the Putin government lives. The US conclusion is that at least part of the Zelensky government authorized the operation, although it is not certain whether the Ukrainian president himself participated in the decision. More fire to the conflict The leak could be a punishment against an operation that Washington sees with bad eyes, due to the possibility of adding even more fire to the conflict. After the attack, the US authorities reprimanded their Ukrainian partners for the operation. Since the beginning of the war, the Biden Administration has sought a balance of offering strong support to Ukraine on the front lines, but without bringing it into direct confrontation with Russia. For this reason, it has refused to send certain weapons – such as the fighter jets that kyiv demanded to protect its skies – and has not offered intelligence on high-ranking Russian officials to carry out covert attacks like Dúguina’s. Ukraine has carried out other covert operations, such as attacks on ammunition depots or sabotage in Russian border areas. For example, in Crimea, the Ukrainian territory that Russia annexed in 2014, or in the Russian city of Belgorod, near the Ukrainian Kharkov. The Dúguina car bomb, of which Washington had no information about its preparation, has been the most far-reaching operation of this type and has opened the door to similar responses by Moscow against senior Ukrainian officials and personalities. Ukraine, through the secretary of the National Security Council, Oleksii Danilov, again denied this week the involvement of his Government In the opinion of the Kremlin, it is “positive” that US Intelligence has placed the Ukrainian Government behind the attack reports Rafael Mañueco from Moscow. Commenting on the leak published by the New York daily, Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov told reporters yesterday that “if this is not false, since after all we live in a world of forgeries, it is indeed a good thing that US intelligence agree with that version”, although, in his opinion, “they realized it a little late, but well, they agree” with the appreciation advanced at the time by the Russian secret services. “I want to believe that this is not an attempt by our American colleagues, who in possession of certain information, intend to free themselves from responsibility for the preparations of future terrorist acts in which the Ukrainian state, the Ukrainian regime may participate,” added Peskov. Ukraine denies it again Ukraine, through the secretary of the National Security Council, Oleksii Danilov, again denied his government’s involvement this week: “We have nothing to do with the murder of that woman.” The anger denoted by the leak to ‘The New York Times’ has not prevented the persistence of collaboration between the US and Ukraine. A senior Ukrainian official assured CNN yesterday that the matter was not discussed at this week’s meeting in Istanbul between Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andrii Yermak. The White House also did not disclose whether Biden and Zelensky, who have spoken by phone this week, discussed the leak.


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