A very interesting report showed up on Monday that has all the makings of a botched assassination attempt.
I am starting to wonder, however, if the assassin got it right and the media got it wrong.
The daughter of Alexander Dugin, a top Putin ally, was killed this weekend in a car explosion.
Initial reports seemed as though the hit was meant for Dugin, but I am starting to wonder if the daughter was the target all along.
The Hit
Darya Dugina was being stalked by an alleged assassin, 43-year-old Natalia Vovk.
Reports stated that Vovk had moved into the same building to scout Dugina.
She was also seen at the building before the explosion and afterward, but switched her car plates out to a Ukrainian license plate.
Dugin and his daughter had attended a cultural festival together, but they left separately, which is where the confusion on the hit comes in.
Dugina was also a top ally of Putin, a media personality, and very pro-war, so she could just as likely have been the target of this hit.
Considering she was the one that Vovk was stalking, that would seem to make more sense.
Russia has since claimed that Ukrainian special forces aided Vovk in carrying out the hit, but Ukraine has already denied it, as we would expect.
A Ukraine official stated, “We are not a criminal state, unlike Russia, and definitely not a terrorist state.”
After having a day to digest this, I have come up with two better possibilities than a botched hit.
First, the obvious, is that Dugina was the target all along.
Second, this was a false flag operation carried out so Russia can justify a top-level assassination of a Ukraine official.
I am saying this because the changing of the plates to Ukrainian plates as Vovk left the country and escaped to Estonia seems a bit too obvious to me.
Those plates were either something to set off the false flag or a blatant F-you by Ukraine, but I am going with the former rather than the latter.