Car-bombing 29-tear-old RTV commentator Darya Dugiina, daughter of 60-year-old Putin confidant Alexander Dugin, a Russian nationalist with close ties to a 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin, has reverberated all over Russia. Russia’s FSB [formerly KGB] security service blamed the targeted hit on 43-year-old Ukrainian citizen Natalya Vovk who promptly fled to Estonia after car bombing Dugina’s Toyota Land Crusier, FSB said. Putin granted Dugina the Order of Courage Tuesday at her memorial service “for courage and selflessness shown in the performance of professional duty,” the Kremlin said. While no one knows for sure if Natalya Vovk carried out the hit, the FSB said she arrived in Moscow in July, planning the attack methodically until fleeing the country. Dugin agreed 100% with the FSB analysis that Darya was killed by Ukrainian security services.
Dugin said that Russia must finish the job of demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine, not let up for one minute after his daughter’s assassination. “Our hears are not simply thirsting for revenge or retribution,” Dugin wrote. “We only need our victory [against Ukraine]. My daugher has sacrificed her young life on the alter of victory. So please win!” Dugin said. FSB officials liked Vovk to the Ukrainian Azov brigade, a designated terror group in Russia. KBG officials posted Vovk’s picture on its website, saying the FSB tracked her whereabouts after the attack, escaping by car with fake license plates to the Estonian border. Ukraine’s Azov brigade denied that Vovk was a Ukrainian agent associated with their group, something common by Ukrainian security officials. Don’t forget that Ukraine’s information agency said Putin was dying of a terminal illness only weeks ago.
So, whatever comes out of Kiev or the U.S., none of the information is reliable, especially when it comes to Dugina’s car bombing. Estonia said they could share information about individuals entering or leaving their country but “only n case prescribed by law,” saying the FSB allegation did not meet that requirement. So, Estonian authorities stonewalled Russia, showing that there may be something significant about Vovk’s entry into Estonia short after the Aug. 20 car bombing. Why Estonian authorities wouldn’t cooperate with Russia remains unknown. Estonia, part of the Baltic States, has antagonistic relations with Moscow, often accusing the Kremlin of trying to take over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. If Natalya Vovk is a legitimate suspect in Dugin’s assassination, Estonian authorities should cooperate with Moscow, to bring the killer to justice.
When it comes to Estonian-Russian relations, there’s more suspicion about Putin’s intentions in the Baltics than any other part of Europse. Baltic State 100% back Biden’s proxy war against the Russian Federation because of their fear of a Russian invasion. No one in the Baltics accepts Putin’s concerns about NATO encroachment in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Putin told Biden for months before the Feb. 24 invasion that he needed to resolve security issues with Ukraine and Eastern Europe or he would be forced to take “military technical measures” to protect Russian National Security. Biden claims the Russian invasion was “unprovoked and unjustified” but to the Kremlin Biden crossed every Rubicon by supplying Ukraine with unlimited lethal weapons to one day fight the Russian Federation. When Biden refused to stop arming Ukraine, Putin took action to protect Russian national security.
Today Biden announced that he will supply Ukraine with $3 billion more in long-term funding for the Ukraine government and war, to commemorate Ukrainian Independence Day Aug. 24. As long as Biden remains president, the U.S. will continue to battle the Russian Federation, leaving WNBA star Brittney Griner and other hostages detained indefinitely. Why would Putin negotiate anything with the U.S. knowing Biden seeks to topple the Russian Federation? With no end in sight to the six-months-old Ukraine War, Ukraine has years of fighting ahead to reclaim some 25% of lost Ukrainian territory, largely along the strategic Black Sea coast. Ukraine’s 44-year-old-president Volodymyr Zelensky will continue the U.S. proxy war as long at Biden foots Kiev’s bills and pays for the war effort. Dugina’s assassination makes perfect sense that it was committed by Ukraine’s security services.
When it comes to confirming the perpetrator of Dugina’s car bombing, getting a hold of of Natalya Vovk would be a good start, requiring cooperation from Estonian authorities. Why Estonian authorities wouldn’t confirm whether Natalya Vovk crossed into Estonia Aug. 20 should not be a big deal. “Estonia, of course, will not hand them over,” wrote Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Kremlin-backed RT media. “She was a unique person, and this loss is absolutely irreplaceable,” said Sergei Sidorov. Russian opposition leaders, all loyal of jailed Russian dissident Alexi Navalny, promote the idea that domestic terror groups could have assassinated Dugina. But the fact that the FSB has a name Natalya Vovk, who, with her daughter, entered Russia and July, and rigged the car bomb, then fled to Estonia sounds like the most plausible explanation. Estonia’s refusal to cooperate causes more problems.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
