Web Desk (LTN NEWS): On Monday, Russia’s Federal Security Service said that Ukraine’s secret services killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of a Russian ultra-nationalist, in a car bomb attack near Moscow.
Russian investigators say that Dugina was killed Saturday night when a bomb went off in the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving. Her father, Alexander Dugin, is thought to be close to President Putin.
Ukraine, which is fighting what it says is an imperialistic war of conquest by Russia, has denied having anything to do with the attack that killed people. The things Russia is doing in Ukraine are called a “special military operation” by Russia.
Alexander Dugin, who is 60 years old, has called for violence to make a new Russian empire out of Russian-speaking and other territories. Darya, who was often on state TV, was a big fan of what Russia was doing in Ukraine.
In his first public statement about Darya’s death, he said that Ukraine had killed her in a cruel way right in front of him.
Dugin wrote, “Our hearts don’t just hunger for revenge or punishment. All we need is to win (against Ukraine). On the altar of victory, my daughter gave up her young life. So win, please!” Russian news agencies said that the FSB security service said that the attack on Dugina was done by a Ukrainian woman born in 1979. They named the woman and put her picture and personal information on Russian news websites.
The websites linked her to Ukraine’s security services and said she was a member of the Azov battalion, which Russia considers to be a terrorist group.
The FSB said that the woman and her teenage daughter came to Russia in July and spent a month planning the attack by renting an apartment in the same building as Dugina.
It said that she had driven a Mini Cooper around Moscow to spy on Dugina. To avoid being caught, she had given the car three different license plates.
She went to an event Saturday night outside of Moscow where Dugina and her father were also, and then she “controlled blew up” Dugina’s car. The FSB said that she drove the same Mini Cooper from Russia to Estonia when she ran away.
Ukraine didn’t respond right away to what the FSB said
Ukrainian woman was on Russia’s list of people wanted, and Moscow was trying to get her extradited from Estonia.
Estonia’s foreign ministry didn’t want to say anything, and Estonia’s interior ministry and police and border guard service didn’t say anything right away.
President Vladimir Putin called Dugina a Russian patriot, and Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Kremlin-backed RT media organization, said Russian agents could find the woman in Estonia.
Simonyan wrote on Telegram, “Estonia, of course, won’t give them away.”
“I think we have professionals who want to look at the spires near Tallinn,” she said, referring to an attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in England in 2018 that Britain blamed on Moscow.
Her father said that a memorial service for Dugina would be held on Tuesday at the TV center in Moscow.
