McGonigal, 54, previously at the helm of New York’s FBI counterintelligence operations during the Trump-Russia inquiry, is now at the center of a scandal that alleges illicit ties with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian businessman.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has recently faced questions over its financial links to Chinese facial recognition startup, SenseTime.
Zelensky's comments about the involvement of the CIA and Russia's suggestion of Western involvement in the bridge attack raise questions about the Biden administration's involvement in the matter.
"Responsible nations have to come together to hold these perpetrators accountable," Biden told a Washington crowd in April 2022. "We will keep raising the economic cost and ratchet up the pain for Putin and further increase Russia's economic isolation."