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Fervent supporter of the Ukraine war: daughter of right-wing ideologue Dugin killed in car explosion
Investigators at the scene of the accident: The daughter of right-wing nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin was killed in a suspected assassination attempt near Moscow
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The daughter of right-wing ideologue Alexander Dugin has been killed in a Moscow attack. Daria Dugina was driving a car when it exploded on a highway and burst into flames.
According to Russian investigators, the daughter of right-wing nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin was killed in a suspected assassination attempt near Moscow. “The identity of the dead has been clarified – it is the journalist and political scientist Darya Dugina,” said the national investigative committee in Moscow on Sunday. The 29-year-old was considered a fervent supporter of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. According to reports by Moscow media, she was on Britain’s sanctions list for spreading propaganda and false news about the invasion ordered by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin on February 24.
According to investigators, Dugina’s car exploded on Saturday evening while driving in a suburban settlement in Moscow region. Investigators released a video of the experts working on site. According to initial findings, an explosive device was mounted on the vehicle, which detonated. There were videos of the burning vehicle on social networks. It will be determined in different directions, it said in the statement of the investigators. She left open whether the assassination attempt could have been aimed at Dugina’s father.
The father of the dead, the radical author Dugin, has repeatedly been described by the western media as a whisperer or as the “brains” of Russian President Putin and as a source of ideas for the attack on Ukraine.
Was the target of the attack in Moscow Dugin himself?
According to a report by the Russian news agency Interfax, Dugin and his daughter attended the patriotic festival “Tradition” together on Saturday, which is supported by a presidential foundation. “It was planned that father and daughter would leave the festival together, but Darja drove alone in the vehicle,” said Interfax.
The attack sparked horror among Russian nationalists and pro-Russian forces in Ukraine. “The terrorists of the Ukrainian regime tried to liquidate Alexander Dugin and blew up his daughter…in the car,” wrote the leader of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, Denis Puzhilin, on the Telegram news channel. Darja will be remembered – as a “real Russian girl”. Some commentators in Ukraine doubted that forces in the country attacked by Russia are currently capable of carrying out such an assassination.