The New York Times reported that US intelligence agencies said that the Ukrainian government authorized the car bomb attack near Moscow in August, which killed Daria Dugin, the daughter of the Russian philosopher and thinker Alexander Dugin.
The newspaper quoted officials as saying that "the United States did not participate in the attack, whether by providing intelligence or other assistance."
They also added that they "were not aware of the operation ahead of time, and would have opposed the killing if they had been consulted," as they put it.
"We are frustrated by Ukraine's lack of transparency about its military and secret plans, especially on Russian soil," they said.
According to the newspaper, US officials warned Ukrainian officials against the assassination.
An accurate assessment of Ukrainian complicity, which has not previously been reported, was shared within the US government last week.
The newspaper pointed out that "the United States is concerned that such attacks - despite their high symbolic value - have little direct impact on the battlefield and could provoke Moscow to carry out its own strikes against senior Ukrainian officials."
It is worth noting that on August 22, the Russian Federal Security Service announced, in a statement, that "as a result of a set of urgent operational search procedures, the service has uncovered the details of the case of the murder of Russian journalist Daria Dugin, born in 1992."
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