The August 20 car-bomb assassination of Darya Dugina in Moscow appears to be the first known execution of one of the non-Ukrainians on the infamous Myrotvorets hit list. If so, it underlines the seriousness of the Kiev regime’s July 14 announcement by the head of their “Center for Countering Disinformation” (CCD), Andriy Shapovalov, that their new list of citizens of other countries that are involved in “information terrorism” are to be treated as war criminals. One needs to recall that the British Foreign Office entered Darya Dugina on their sanctions list back on July 4—19 days before the accused assassin Natalya Vovk entered Russia on her mission. While a sanctions list is not exactly an assassination list, the language employed by the British is similar: “Dugina is a frequent and well-known author of disinformation regarding Ukraine,” and, on various websites, she “supported and promoted policies or actions that destabilize Ukraine, undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine.” This is pretty much the language employed 10 days later by Kiev’s CCD in defining an “information terrorist,” one that was to be treated as an enemy combatant, regardless of their being citizens of other nations, reported RBC. (https://www.rbc.ru/politics/04/07/2022/62c31fe69a794715322142ba )
Shapovalov’s list is created explicitly for Ukraine’s internal security, the SBU, to take the requisite counter-measures. Kiev has not clarified how far they are willing to go to execute citizens of other countries, so the leads in the Dugina case are of no little interest.
Early on, Russia’s suspicions fell upon Natalya Vovk, and she was linked to Ukraine’s Azov Regiment by an ID, showing her—under her former married name of Natalya Shaban—as a member of Ukraine’s National Guard unit 3057. That unit is the specific one established for and controlled by the Azov Regiment back in November 2014, when they went from being an irregular militia to a formal part of Ukraine’s armed forces. It should not be assumed that everyone in unit 3057 is a direct member of the Azov Regiment, but, regardless, they would be under its control. An Azov spokesman has made the limited denial that Vovk/Shaban was not a member of the Azov itself, as they only allowed men to join. He did admit that the Russians had control over the ID records of unit 3057 in Mariupol.
