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Cat crate hid parts of bomb that killed Russian hardliner's daughter: report
France 24 ^

Posted on 10/23/2023 10:04:07 AM PDT by FarCenter

Darya Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, an outspoken advocate for the invasion of Ukraine, was killed in a shock car bombing in the outskirts of Moscow in August 2022.

Weeks earlier, a mother and her 12-year-old daughter drove into Russia from Estonia in a "cluttered" car containing a cat carrier with a hidden compartment for containing parts of the bomb that killed Dugina, the Post reported, citing unnamed security officials familiar with the operation.

The woman took an apartment in the same complex as Dugina and surveilled her before the operation, Russian officials have said. The bomb was intended to kill Dugin, but he got into a different car.

Within days, Russia had accused Ukrainian spies of being behind the brazen attack. Kyiv has denied the claim.

US intelligence drew the same conclusion, however, and officials told The New York Times last year that they had admonished Ukraine over it.

The Post reported Monday that Ukraine's domestic security service, the SBU, was behind the attack, citing unnamed current and former US and Ukrainian officials.

"The August 2022 attack is part of a raging shadow war in which Ukraine's spy services have also twice bombed the bridge connecting Russia to occupied Crimea, piloted drones into the roof of the Kremlin and blown holes in the hulls of Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea," the report said.

The missions involved Ukrainian teams "formed, trained and equipped in close partnership with the CIA," the Post reported, adding that the extent of the CIA's partnership with Ukraine's security services -- which dates back to 2015, after Russia annexed Crimea -- has not been previously disclosed.

But the Post also said there was growing unease over the "dozens" of assassinations carried out by the SBU and its military arm GUR.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alexanderdugin; daryadugina; goodriddance; notashame; vikingkitties; warishell
Israel targets the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iranian nuclear scientists, etc.

Ukraine targets political and military leaders in Russia.

Perhaps a new era of war by targeted assassination of leaders is beginning.

There's no reason to kill masses of conscripts if you can kill bunches of generals.

1 posted on 10/23/2023 10:04:07 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter
Nothing new. Of course, one targeted assassination can quickly spin out of control.


2 posted on 10/23/2023 10:10:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: FarCenter

BUT, it only happened after Russia illegally invaded Ukraine, and attacked civilians with kinetic missiles

maybe Russia shouldn’t have done those things, more people would still be alive today, huh?


3 posted on 10/23/2023 10:14:16 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

True, but if you are at war, that is less of a problem.

It seems like a good use of AI and 3D printing to develop intelligent drone bombs disguised as common household objects that can sneak up on the victim and detonate.

Or maybe a robotic puppy bomb?


4 posted on 10/23/2023 10:18:21 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: canuck_conservative

Shouldn’t you be concerned about Castros son who is destroying your country?


5 posted on 10/23/2023 10:32:32 AM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: canuck_conservative

Oh. So it was okay to get back at some Russian guy by killing his daughter. Got it.


6 posted on 10/23/2023 10:33:09 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: canuck_conservative

Targeting non-combatants with car bombs is terrorism indeed. State terrorism in this case.


7 posted on 10/23/2023 10:34:58 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

war is hell

if you Russians don’t like it, why did you start this war?


8 posted on 10/23/2023 10:36:16 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: canuck_conservative
The globalists started this war railroading Ukraine into a confrontation with Russia with the Maidan coup and the free reign given to neo-Nazi terrorists in the Donetsk. I suspect you understand that perfectly well.

Killing a 29 year old daughter of a philosopher, no matter how popular, is not assassinating political leaders. When the time comes that someone starts hunting and killing globalist leaders and influencers, no matter how far removed from combat fatigues they may be, it will be sheer hypocrisy to hear you complain about it.

9 posted on 10/23/2023 10:41:19 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: canuck_conservative

Did HAMAS had a point attacking Israeli civilians? Or was Osama justified on 9/11? Some consistency wouldn’t hurt you.


10 posted on 10/23/2023 10:44:23 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

Maybe Ukrainians killed Dugina or maybe it was the Russians. Maybe they targeted the psycho father or maybe the fascist piece of shit daughter. Nothing wrong with killing either of these pieces of shit.

Neither of these inhuman propagandist scum was a civilian. Taking out russian Goebbels’s is warfighting.

Likelier that some fellow Russian shits killed them. Ukrainians have better targets.


11 posted on 10/23/2023 10:48:36 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: NorseViking

Well look who slithered back in. Shouldn’t you be sucking up to Iran these days?

L


12 posted on 10/23/2023 10:55:55 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: EnderWiggin1970
The globalists started this war railroading Ukraine into a confrontation with Russia with the Maidan coup and the free reign given to neo-Nazi terrorists in the Donetsk. I suspect you understand that perfectly well.

Killing a 29 year old daughter of a philosopher, no matter how popular, is not assassinating political leaders. When the time comes that someone starts hunting and killing globalist leaders and influencers, no matter how far removed from combat fatigues they may be, it will be sheer hypocrisy to hear you complain about it.

This cannot be said enough.

The globalist socialists intent on destroying our world in order to bring about their "new beginning" should be called out at every chance.   One world government of the WEF and/or all of its permutations is the ultimate tyranny.

Sic semper tyrannis

13 posted on 10/23/2023 11:19:39 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: NorseViking

if you look closely, you’ll notice I sympathize with the victims, not the warmongering attackers

Osama Bin Laden, Hamas, and Russia all launched surprise attacks on innocent countries

look at my comments Rooskie, I still support the victims - America, Israel, and Ukraine

that’s consistency


14 posted on 10/23/2023 11:26:25 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: canuck_conservative

You are entitled to your own delusions regarding Russia.
But you are not entitled to your own facts.
Promises made (by the nations of the west) were not kept regarding NATO membership.
Of course, for decades the USSR had made promises and then broken the promises.
But written assurances are considered a solemn commitment. And those assurances were broken by NATO.
So quit with the name calling, please.


15 posted on 10/23/2023 12:08:31 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: Honest Nigerian

What is the document on NATO membership?


16 posted on 10/23/2023 12:41:08 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: canuck_conservative

LOL. I hope you understand now why Arabs danced on 9/11. Today more than half of the world population is going to celebrate once it happens again. You are full of crap.


17 posted on 10/23/2023 4:44:49 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Honest Nigerian

what promises are you talking about?


18 posted on 10/23/2023 5:08:19 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: Honest Nigerian

There is no such treaty.

Every person in the position to know - Bush, Baker, Shevardnadze and even Gorbachev himself (!) has said there was never any such promise.

It’s just nonsense propaganda Russia spreads. They do this because they know there are plenty of people, whose hate for America is so great, that they’ll believe anything even when all the evidence shows the claims to be false.


19 posted on 10/24/2023 1:25:05 AM PDT by Krosan
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