Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday denounced a “despicable crime” after the death of the daughter of an ideologue supporting the offensive in Ukraine in the explosion of his car near Moscow, which the Russian authorities impute to kyiv who deny.
“A despicable, cruel crime prematurely ended the life of Daria Dugina, a brilliant and talented person with a truly Russian heart,” Putin said in a condolence message released by the Kremlin to relatives. of the young woman killed on Saturday. Russia’s security services (FSB) on Monday accused Ukraine’s “special services” of killing the daughter of a reputed ideologue close to the Kremlin who died in a car explosion near Moscow, news agencies reported. Russians. The “murder” of Daria Dugina, daughter of Alexander Dugin, “was prepared and committed by Ukrainian special services”, the FSB said in a statement quoted by Russian agencies.
According to the same source, the car driven by Daria Douguina was trapped 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, born in 2010. Still according to the FSB , this person had notably rented an apartment in the building where Douguina lived and she had gone to a cultural festival on Saturday where the journalist and political scientist was also present.
According to the FSB, this Ukrainian woman then fled to Estonia with her daughter. Questioned on Saturday by Russian media believing that the target of the attack was in fact Alexander Dougin, Ukraine had denied Sunday any involvement in the death of Dougina. “Ukraine certainly had nothing to do with the explosion (on Saturday), because we are not a criminal state,” said an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mikhaïlo Podoliak.
Daria Dougina, a journalist and political scientist, was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser when it exploded before catching fire on a highway near the village of Bolchiye Viaziomy, about 40 kilometers from Moscow, on Saturday. The young woman, born in 1992, “was killed at the scene”. According to relatives of the family, quoted by Russian press agencies, it was the ultra-nationalist intellectual and writer Alexander Dougin who was targeted by the explosion, Daria having borrowed her father’s car for this trip.
His father is an ideologue of the war in Ukraine
Promoter of the “eurasist” doctrine, a sort of alliance between Europe and Asia under Russian leadership, Alexandre Douguine, who influences part of the French far right, has been targeted since 2014 by EU sanctions taken in the wake of the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula by Russia. In recent years, Ukraine has banned several of his works, including “Ukraine. My War. Geopolitical Diary” and “Eurasian Revenge of Russia”. The leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), self-proclaimed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Denis Pushilin on Sunday accused Ukrainian forces of being behind the assassination of Daria Dugina. “Ukrainian regime terrorists tried to liquidate Alexander Dugin, but blew up his daughter,” Pushilin said on Telegram.