Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday described the death of Daria Duguina, daughter of ideologue Alexander Dugin, who supports the offensive in Ukraine, as a “despicable crime.” The woman died during the explosion of her vehicle near Moscow that occurred last Saturday, and of which Ukraine is accused.
“A despicable, cruel crime put an early end to the life of Daria Duguina, a brilliant and talented person endowed with a truly Russian heart,” Putin said in a message of condolences published by the Kremlin and expressed to relatives of the young woman.
In addition to the condemnation by the Kremlin, the Russian security services (FSB) on Monday accused the Ukrainian “special services” of having murdered the daughter of Alexander Dugin, news agencies reported.
The “assassination” of Daria Duguina, daughter of Alexander Dugin, “was prepared and committed by the Ukrainian special services,” the FSB said in a statement quoted by Russian news agencies.
According to the same source, the car driven by Daria Duguina was set up by a woman of Ukrainian nationality born in 1979, identified by the FSB as Natalia Vovk, who arrived in Russia in July with her minor daughter.
According to the FSB, among other things, that woman had rented an apartment in the building where Duguina lived and had gone to a cultural festival on Saturday in which the journalist and political scientist was also present.
The FSB claims that the person who put the explosive in Daria Duguina’s vehicle later fled to Estonia.
At the time of the explosion, Daria Duguina, a journalist and political scientist, was driving near the town of Bolshie Viaziomy, about 40 km from Moscow, at the wheel of a Toyota Land Cruiser, a statement from the Russian Investigative Committee detailed on Sunday.
The young woman, born in 1992, “died at the scene” of the explosion, it added.
The detonation was due to an explosive device placed under the vehicle, investigators said.
The Investigative Committee, in charge of criminal investigations in Russia, opened an investigation for “homicide”.
Ukraine on Sunday denied any involvement
“Ukraine has absolutely nothing to do with the explosion (on Saturday), because we are not a criminal state,” the advisor to the Ukrainian presidency, Mijailo Podoliak, replied after the accusations.
The target of the attack was Alexander Dugin, said people close to the family, quoted by Russian news agencies, since Daria Duguina had borrowed her father’s car.
Who is Alexander Duguin?
Alexander Duguin, an ultra-nationalist intellectual and writer, theorist of neo-Eurasianism, an alliance between Europe and Asia led by Russia, has been subject to European Union sanctions since 2014, after the Russian annexation of Crimea.
In recent years, Ukraine has banned several of his books, notably “Ukraine. My War. Geopolitical Diary” and “Eurasian Revenge of Russia.”
