After the killing of Dugina and pro-Russians, has the Ukraine war entered the stage of assassinations?

Following the killing of Dugina, the Russian authorities announced, on Wednesday, the assassination of Ivan Sochko, head of the military and civil administration of the city of Mikhailovka, eastern Ukraine, by a mine explosion in his car.

Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Zaporizhia Region Board of Directors, said in a statement that the head of the Mikhailovka administration, Ivan Suchko, was assassinated in a deliberate car bombing, an explosive device was planted under the seat in his car..

Military experts who spoke to “Sky News Arabia” believe that these incidents are a message to Moscow and indicate the failure of any future political solutions, and also aim to demonstrate Ukraine’s ability to provoke Russia and carry out operations in the heart of Moscow..

The chaos of the assassinations

According to Russian reports, the context of the war has entered the stage of targeting officials, especially the regions of eastern Ukraine:

• On August 14, the mayor of Berdyansk, Alexander and Lenko, was subjected to an assassination attempt and thwarted, and it was under the direct supervision of the Ukrainian Security Service.
• On August 6, the deputy head of the Nova Kakhovka administration in the Kherson region, Vitaly Gora, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen near his home, according to the Russian “TASS” agency..
• On May 22, Andrei Shevchik, mayor of the city of Energodar, Zaporozhye region, and two of his companions were injured in the explosion of an improvised explosive device at the entrance to his house.

What does the “assassination tactic” mean in the opinion of experts?

Says The New York Times, The murder of Daria Dugina brings to mind the chaos of the 1990s and the political assassinations that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

The American newspaper stressed that targeting Putin supporters is not new. A prominent Ukrainian journalist, Oli Buzhina, a supporter of the Kremlin, was killed in 2015 in a crime whose circumstances have not yet been revealed, noting that “the killing of Daria Dugina opened the door for political assassinations between Russia and Ukraine.”“.

Message to Russia

The assassination of the Russian journalist shook the entire Russian society, against the background of the crime itself, and about whether Daria (30 years old) was the one who was targeted or her father, Alexander Dugina (60 years), who was the target of the assassination..

Russian accusations point to Natalia Vovk, a Ukrainian intelligence officer, who was born in the city of Mariupol in 1976, of carrying out the murder of Dugina, and of escaping to Estonia and from there to Austria.

Russian military expert Vladimir Igor says, “It is a message to Russia, and carefully thought-out and planned work, and the implementation of such operations needs professionals.”“.

He added to “Sky News Arabia”, that “Ukraine has an interest in carrying out the incident to sow frustration with the Russian income and to create a new image about its ability to strike the heart of Moscow, especially since the incident came in the wake of the recent bombings that rocked the Crimea, and the provocations around the Zaporizhia reactor.” Nuclear, and the incident of poisoning Russian soldiers“.

He pointed out that the incidents indicate that the conflict will intensify, and the war will turn into a strategy of revenge, because the conflict between Russia, Ukraine and its allies from the West is primarily intellectual, its hero Alexander Dugina, who chronicles the “new Eurasian movement.”“.

And he added: “There are those who are trying to ignite war and pour oil on the fire, and prolong the conflict to drain Europe and Russia at the same time, and these incidents will have an adverse effect on the military operation, and there will be no peaceful solutions in the near future.“.

American concern

Military expert Jalal Al-Taweel says that “there is an American intelligence role that is inseparable from the recent events against Russia, whether in Crimea or the assassination of Darya and military leaders in the Donbas region,” adding: “Alexander Dugina’s ideas establish a new world order centered on Russia, which is described as Putin’s strategic mind. And his ideas were influenced by members of the American Republican Party, and some American thinkers, which is a matter that worries Washington“.

He added to “Sky News Arabia”, that “the attempt to target the heart of Moscow with assassinations and eastern Ukraine, which is controlled by Moscow, is pushing for an escalation of the war. political and geopolitical“.