Russia accuses Ukraine of ordering the “assassination” of Daria Duguina

Daria Dúguina was a staunch supporter of the Russian war in Ukraine, who was killed when her car exploded in Moscow on the night of Saturday, August 20.

Now, the death of the daughter of who is considered in the West as Putin’s “ideologue”, Alexander Dugin, threatens to increase the anger of the Kremlin troops against the country that is about to complete six months under siege.

On August 22, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) accused kyiv of ordering the attack. “The crime was prepared and executed by the Ukrainian special services,” the FSB said in a statement.

According to the Moscow version, the “murder” was perpetrated by a Ukrainian woman, born in 1979 and identified as Natalya Vovk, who allegedly arrived in Russia last July with her teenage daughter.

The FSB points out that the alleged aggressor spent a month preparing and rented an apartment in the same building where Dúguina, 29, lived, which would have allowed him to follow her and learn about her way of life.

The woman would have been last Saturday at the ‘Tradition’ literary-musical festival, a Russian nationalist event that Dúguina and her father attended that same night.

After allegedly installing a device in the lower part of the vehicle and carrying out a “controlled explosion”, Vovk and her daughter would have fled to Estonia aboard a car with a license plate number different from that of the vehicle with which they entered Russian territory from of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, according to the FSB version.

Denis Pushilin, a pro-Russian leader from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, was quick to blame what happened on “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, who were trying to kill Alexander Dugin.”

Russian state media reports cited witnesses who claimed the car belonged to Dugin, but at the last minute he decided to travel in another vehicle.

kyiv insists that it is not behind the detonation that ended the life of the political commentator, who was sanctioned by the United States last March due to her work as editor-in-chief of ‘United World International’, a website that Washington describes as as a source of disinformation about the conflict that President Vladimir Putin launched against his neighboring nation on February 24, 2022.

Ukraine’s presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak described the FSB’s version of events as part of “Russian propaganda living in a world of fiction.”

Putin describes the death of Daria Dúguina as “a despicable crime”

In a message of condolences released by the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin assured that the murder of Dúguina was “a despicable and cruel crime”, which put an early end to the life of Daria Dúguina, “a brilliant and talented person endowed with a heart Truly Russian.”

Alexander Dugin has been a leading proponent of the “Russian world” concept, a spiritual and political ideology that emphasizes traditional values, the restoration of Russia’s global influence, and the unity of all ethnic Russians in the world.

The philosopher and writer has vehemently supported Putin’s move to send troops to Ukraine and urged the Kremlin to intensify its operations in that country.

His late daughter expressed similar views and appeared as a commentator on the nationalist TV channel ‘Tsargrad’, where Duguin served as editor-in-chief.

A few days before his death, on Thursday, August 18, Dúguina made an appearance on Russian television in which he declared that “people in the West live in a dream, a dream that has given them global hegemony.”

The woman called the United States “a zombie society” that opposes Russia, but can’t find it on a map.

The ENR claims the attack against Dúguina, a version contrary to that of Moscow

Ilya Ponomariov, the only lawmaker in the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, who voted against the annexation of Crimea in 2014, claimed that the car bombing was carried out by a group known as the National Republican Army (NRA). , a group made up of “activists, military and politicians” who oppose the Russian offensive in Ukraine and oppose Putin.

The former deputy, who claims to be in contact with the “partisans” of the ENR, said that he was authorized to read a manifesto from the organization in which what happened is attributed.

“Our goal is to stop the destruction of Russia and its neighbors (…) We believe that people deprived of their rights have the right to rebel against tyrants. Putin will be deposed and destroyed by us!” Says the text released by Ponomariov, in which the Russian president was described as a “usurper of power and war criminal”.

Ponomariov spread the message through his YouTube channel, ‘February Morning’. In it, he confirmed that “this action, like many other guerrilla actions carried out in Russian territory in recent months, is the work of the ENR” and that the target of the attack was Alexander Duguin.

The former lawmaker left Russia and was banned from returning to his country after voting against the Ukrainian province seven years ago.

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Meanwhile, kyiv is preparing for the intensification of the attacks after the attack on Dúgina.

Overnight on Monday, Russian artillery hit at least three districts near the Zaporizhia nuclear plant: Nikopol, Kryvoriz and Synelnykiv, where Kremlin shells flew into residential neighborhoods.

Ukraine is also preparing for an intensification of the assaults ahead of the anniversary of independence from the Russian empire, next Wednesday, August 24.

With Reuters, AP and local media