Dugina, daughter of a famous ideologue, Alexander Dugin, was killed on Saturday evening when a suspicious explosive device blasted the…
Russian news agencies reported that Russia’s Federal Security Service on Monday alleged Ukraine’s secret services were planning the weekend assassination of Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue.
According to Russian investigators, Dugina, the daughter of a famous ideologue named Alexander Dugin, was killed on Saturday evening when a suspicious explosive device blasted the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving. Ukraine has refused involvement. The FSB stated that the explosion was planned by a Ukrainian woman born in 1979, whose name it did not reveal.
The websites linked her to Ukraine’s security services and alleged she was an ally of the Azov battalion, a unit of Ukraine’s military that Russia has designated a terrorist group.
It said the woman and her teenage daughter had come to Russia in July and spent a month planning the blast by renting an apartment in a similar housing block and researching Dugina’s life, according to an FSB statement reported by Russian news agencies.
It said she had driven a Mini Cooper around Moscow, which she used to keep an eye on Dugina and for which she had three distinct sets of licence plates to prevent detection.
The attacker had visited an event outside Moscow on Saturday evening, at which Dugina and her father were also present, before planning a controlled explosion of Dugina’s car and running away from Russia to Estonia, the FSB was quoted as saying.
There was no direct response from Ukraine to the FSB statement.
Dugin’s Statement
Russia claims that its actions in Ukraine were carried out by special forces. Alexander Dugin, 60, has supported violence to achieve the unification of Russian-speaking and other territories in a different Russian empire. Darya, who appeared continuously on television, was a strong defender of Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
In his first public statement on his daughter’s killing, he said Darya had been brutally killed before his own eyes by Ukraine.
“Our hearts are not merely craving for vengeance or retribution,” Dugin wrote. “We only want to get our win against Ukraine. My daughter has lost her young life on the shrine of victory. So please win!”
