WASHINGTON, October 23. /TASS/. Some of the resonant terrorist attacks on Russia have been the handiwork of officers from the Security Service of Ukraine who had been trained in partnership with the US Central Intelligence Agency, The Washington Post reported.

According to the report that cited current and former Ukrainian and US officials, the attack on Darya Dugina in August 2022 was "part of a raging shadow war," in which Ukraine’s security service have also "twice bombed the bridge" connecting Russia to Crimea, "piloted drones into the roof of the Kremlin and blown holes in the hulls of Russian naval vessels in the Black Sea."

"The missions have involved elite teams of Ukrainian operatives drawn from directorates that were formed, trained and equipped in close partnership with the CIA," the newspaper reported.

"Since 2015, the CIA has spent tens of millions of dollars to transform Ukraine’s Soviet-formed services into potent allies against Moscow," the report said. "The agency has provided Ukraine with advanced surveillance systems, trained recruits at sites in Ukraine as well as the United States, built new headquarters for departments in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, and shared intelligence on a scale that would have been unimaginable" before Crimea rejoined Russia, the newspaper said.

The report also said "CIA maintains a significant presence in Kiev."

Darya Dugina, a 29-year-old journalist and daughter of philosopher Alexander Dugin, was killed on the evening of August 20, 2022, when her car was blown up outside Moscow. Two days later, the Russian Federal Security Service, also known as the FSB, told TASS that Dugina’s murder had been solved. According to the agency, the assassination had been plotted by Ukrainian special services and carried out by Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk.