MOSCOW —
Russia’s FSB security services said Monday that Ukraine was behind a car
bombing in the outskirts of Moscow that killed the daughter of hard-line
Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin.
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Dugin — an
outspoken ultranationalist intellectual and a vocal supporter of the Kremlin’s
offensive in Ukraine — is thought to have been the likely target of the attack.
“The crime was
prepared and committed by
Ukrainian special services,” the FSB said in a statement
carried by Russian news agencies.
It added that the
perpetrator — a female Ukrainian citizen born in 1979 — on Sunday had fled to
EU member Estonia.
The FSB in its
statement identified the woman as Natalia Vovk.
Daria Dugina was
killed Saturday when a bomb placed in a Toyota Land Cruiser went off as she
drove on a highway some 40km outside Moscow.
Russian President
Vladimir Putin on Monday expressed his “sincere condolences and words of
support” following Dugina’s death.
“A vile, cruel
crime ended the life of Daria Dugina, a bright, talented person with a real
Russian heart — kind, loving, sympathetic, and open,” Putin said in a message
to Dugina’s family released by the Kremlin.
He added that she
“proved with her deeds what it means to be a patriot of Russia”.
According to the
FSB statement, the attacker arrived in Russia in July 2022 with her underage
daughter and rented an apartment in the same building where Dugina lived.
The supposed
attacker followed Dugina in a Mini Cooper with registration plates issued in
Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and in the breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern
Ukraine, the FSB added.
The FSB said the
attacker was at a festival outside Moscow that Dugin and his daughter had
attended on Saturday.
Reports from
Russian media suggested Dugina had borrowed her father’s car at the last
minute.
Dugin, 60,
sometimes called “Putin’s Rasputin” or “Putin’s brain”, is an outspoken Russian
ultranationalist intellectual.
He has long
advocated the unification of Russian-speaking territories in a vast new Russian
empire and wholeheartedly supported Moscow’s operation in Ukraine.
He was put on a
Western sanctions list after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, a move he also
backed.
A Ukrainian
presidential adviser,
Mykhaylo Podolyak, on Sunday denied that the Kyiv
authorities were behind the bombing.
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