discussion. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. now the u.s. is offering high tech help to investigate what damage the nordstream gas pipelines in the baltic sea. the navy could provide its most advanced underwater sound reading capabilities to analyze audio recordings of the incidents. three of the four pipe lines were damaged by what russia and the west call sabotage. vladimir putin is demanding moscow take part in the investigation. still to come, new findings from the u.s. intelligence community on the car bombing that killed the daughter of russian political figure alexander duggan. the details in a live report. just weeks after a young iranian woman died in custody a teenage girl turns up dead also under mysterious circumstances. also coming up, the climate crisis making fall weather in the u.s. a bit of a mixed bag. cnn s pedram javaheri has the latest forecast for you. in a few moments we ll break
intelligence community believes elements within ukraine s government authorize the car bombing that killed the daughter of a prominent political figure. she was killed in that blast on august 20th but one source says intelligence officials believe she was driving her father s car and he was the actual target. cnn s scott mcclain is following developments for us in london. what more are we learning there, scott? reporter: ukrainians are saying nothing about this. ukrainian defense intelligence official says ukraine has nothing to add to this. this happened back on august 25th. her car was turning onto the main highway when a bomb planted underneath herr jeep detonated, as you mentioned, because she was driving her father s car, the initial thought was alexander duggan was the actual target. it is important to remember, though, this is a u.s. intelligence assessment, this is not a proven fact. there are also plenty of
york times report blames part of dwroouk s government for authorizing the covert assassination of the daughter of a prominent putin ally. she was killed in a car bombing in moscow. the u.s. official told her times they may be targeting her father, alexander dugan, who appeared after at the scene shortly after the attack. at the time, ukraine denied any involvement. the new york times reports u.s. official who is spoke about the mission did not say who carried it outer or whether president zelenskyy signed off on it, but the u.s. officials say they admonished ukraine for the act, fearing it could prolong the war. nbc news reached out to military and intelligence officials but has been unable to confirm the times reporting. stunning scenes from the front line, ukrainian armed forces releasing this footage showing the moment they say russian soldiers surrendered in kherson
at the time of the this attack. it was a car boxing and the original intented targets according to u.s. intelligence officials was actually her father. and she actually ended up being killed in that car bombing at the end of the august. so the significance of this really can t be overstated at this point. just in terms of what is said about ukraine s covert operations inside of russia. because it had seemed as the operations were largely limited to the ukraine/russia border area and fuelling military depots there but ukraine is carrying out operations that could hit in the heart of russia and could target people would are well-known political figures there. so the u.s. is weary of this and of course ukraine, we should note, has denied it from the beginning when we reached out they said last night that they have no additional information on daria digina s death. kate. thank you.
especially in the south of ukraine. senior defense official here in ukraine was saying they liberated about 400 square kilometers of territory just in the south of ukraine and just in the past couple of days. we ve been talking about it a little bit. the ukrainians are saying they believe some of the russian defensive positions have all been but collapsed over the past few years and think the momentum is on their side and certainly the ukrainians are saying they re not letting up, they re not stopping. they want to liberate all their territory. frederik pleitgen with the latest for us, thank you. we re also learning more about the car bombing that killed the daughter of putin ally back in august. u.s. cleanse officials believe people within the ukrainian government authorized the attack. the same sources say she was probably not the intended target. natasha bertrand joining us with more on these developments. this is a big development in and