“Ukraine has nothing to do” with the attack, according to an adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency
Daria Dugina, daughter of Russian philosopher Alexander Duguin, leader of the Eurasian movement and main ideologue of the Kremlin, was killed this Saturday in a car bomb attack in Moscow, according to the state agency TASS.
According to preliminary reports from the Russian authorities, a device allegedly installed in a Toyota Land Cruiser exploded when the vehicle was speeding on public roads at around 9:00 p.m. local time.
The journalist and political scientist, who is sanctioned by the West in the framework of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was returning from a cultural festival in Moscow when a bomb detonated in the car in which she was traveling, which belonged to her father.
“It was completely on fire, he lost control because he was driving at high speed and flew to the opposite side of the road,” said Andrei Krasnov, an acquaintance of the family, who pointed out that “the target” was Alexander Duguin.
The Russian Investigative Committee announced this morning the opening of a criminal case “for the murder of a young woman in a generally dangerous manner” and has indicated in a statement that it is already working on all possible versions of the crime.
For his part, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, has accused kyiv of the explosion that killed Dugina. “The terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, in an attempt to eliminate Alexander Dugin, have detonated his daughter,” he wrote on his Telegram account.
However, the adviser to the Presidency of Ukraine, Mijailo Podoliak, has pointed out that “Ukraine has nothing to do” with the attack, since they are not a “terrorist” state, while at the same time stressing that “the mechanism of retaliation ” has been launched “within the aggressor country”, as UNIAN has collected.
In this way, Podoliak has emphasized that Russia is beginning to “disintegrate internally.” “The ultra-radicals, to which Dugin himself belonged, are involved in this monstrosity,” he added, according to the Ukrainian Channel 24.
Alexander Dugin, leader of the Eurasian movement, is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Dugin is credited with being the “spiritual guide” to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and is frequently described as “Putin’s brains”. In 2015 he was sanctioned by the United States for his alleged involvement in the Russian annexation of Crimea.
Their daughter, Dugina, was born in 1992 and studied Philosophy at Moscow State University. Earlier this year, US and UK authorities sanctioned her for contributing to disinformation about the war in Ukraine.