Kiev is bragging about blowing up the Kerch bridge. Did US have prior knowledge? Which would be worse: that US did know or did not? Was the odd NYT report denying foreknowledge of Dugina killing aimed at providing ‘preemptive plausible deniability’ about such actions?
https://nytimes.com/2022/10/05/us/politics/ukraine-russia-dugina-assassination.html