Each new claim over the attack that killed Darya Dugina seems to raise more questions than it answers.
On Monday, Russia’s FSB security service claimed to have cracked the case, publishing information and a video it said showed a Ukrainian woman from the country’s Azov regiment was responsible for the murder of Dugina, whose father is the far-right ideologue Alexander Dugin.
According to the FSB, the assassin managed to enter Russia with her 12-year-old daughter in tow, move around undetected while frequently changing the plates on her Mini Cooper, plant and detonate a professional explosive device, and leave the country.
Supposedly, she managed to do all this without being spotted by Russia’s security services until after she had fled, presumably by posing as one of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who have either sought refuge in Russia or been forcibly deported from occupied areas of Ukraine.
The FSB’s claims will be met with extreme scepticism, and Ukraine has strongly denied any involvement in the attack, pointing out that Dugin was a marginal figure and insisting it does not carry out this kind of mission.
But it is not impossible to imagine a motive for Kyiv: Dugina’s death came as Ukrainians are increasingly taking the fight to Russia in occupied Crimea for the first time since the invasion in February. Operations such as an audacious plan to lure a group of Russian mercenaries to Ukraine two years ago show that there are those in the Ukrainian services who...
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