ロシア思想家の娘殺害にウクライナが関与、猫用バッグに爆弾部品　米紙

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】米紙ワシントン・ポストは２３日、昨年ロシアの右派思想家アレクサンドル・ドゥーギン氏の娘が死亡した事件について、ウクライナ情報機関の保安局（ＳＢＵ）が周到に準備した暗殺だったと報じた。猫用のキャリーバッグで密輸された部品を使った爆弾が用いられたという。（写真はロシア・モスクワ郊外で、アレクサンドル・ドゥーギン氏の娘ダリア氏が運転していた車が爆発した現場を調べる関係者。連邦調査委員会提供〈資料写真〉）
　ダリア氏（当時２９）は昨年８月、首都モスクワ郊外で車に仕掛けられた爆弾が爆発し死亡。ドゥーギン氏は、ウラジーミル・プーチン大統領に近いとされ、ロシアによるウクライナ侵攻を強く支持している。
　ワシントン・ポストが、作戦について知る複数の治安当局者の話として伝えたところによると、事件の数週間前、ある女性とその娘（１２）が、物が雑然と積まれた車でエストニアからロシアに入国。車に猫用キャリーバッグも載せられており、その隠しスペースに、殺害に使われた爆弾の部品が入れられていたという。
　ロシア当局はこれまで、この女性はダリア氏と同じ集合住宅内の部屋を借り、作戦決行まで同氏を監視していたと指摘していた。爆弾はドゥーギン氏を暗殺するためのものだったが、同氏は別の車に乗ったため難を逃れた。
　ロシアは事件発生直後から、ウクライナの情報員の犯行だと主張していたが、ウクライナ側はこれを否定していた。
　同紙は、ＳＢＵが関与していたとされる今回の事件について、米国とウクライナの現旧高官の話として、ロシアとクリミア半島をつなぐ橋の２度の爆破や、大統領府の屋根へのドローン攻撃、黒海でのロシア海軍艦への攻撃など、ウクライナ情報機関が進めていた「影の戦争」の一部だったと伝えた。
　また、これらの作戦には「米中央情報局（ＣＩＡ）との緊密な協力の下で結成され、訓練され、装備が与えられた」ウクライナのチームが関与。ウクライナとＣＩＡの関係は、ロシアによるクリミア併合後の２０１５年にまでさかのぼるものの、その協力関係の深さはこれまで明かされてこなかったとしている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/10/25-16:54）

Ukraine's spy service orchestrated the assassination of the daughter of a leading Kremlin hardliner last year using bomb parts smuggled inside a cat carrier, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
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, the GUR, in recent months.
They include a Russian submarine commander killed while out jogging in a park, a militant blogger who died in a bomb blast at a cafe, and a rebel commander killed when a woman who had accused him of rape planted a bomb at his side.
US officials told the Post that the Central Intelligence Agency had no involvement in assassinations carried out by Ukrainian agencies.
The run of killings has caused disquiet among officials in Washington and Kyiv who question the CIA's complicity, the Post said.
One US official told the Post that the emphasis was 'more on secure communications and tradecraft,' and pursuing new streams of intelligence inside Russia rather than 'here's how you blow up a mayor.'
Ukrainian officials told the Post that security services have been forced to use the tactics as they hold off a more powerful adversary, and cited Russia's own record of assassinations.
The SBU's director, Vasyl Malyuk, told the Post that all targets hit by the SBU are completely legal.