Russia’s Federal Security Service accused Ukraine’s secret providers on Monday of killing Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist, in a automobile bomb assault close to Moscow that President Vladimir Putin referred to as “evil”.
Dugina, whose father Alexander Dugin is a distinguished ideologue, was killed on Saturday when a bomb blew up the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving, Russian investigators stated.
Ukraine, defending itself from what it says is an imperial-style struggle of conquest waged by Russia, denied involvement within the assault, with Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak calling the accusation “propaganda”.
Putin on Monday posthumously granted Dugina the Order of Courage, a prestigious state award, “for courage and selflessness shown in the performance of professional duty”, the Kremlin stated.
Dugina, an everyday commentator on state TV, strongly backed Russia’s actions in Ukraine, which Moscow calls a “special military operation”.
Alexander Dugin, 60, has lengthy advocated violence to attain the unification of Russian-speaking and different territories.
In his first public assertion on the bombing, he stated Darya had been savagely killed earlier than his personal eyes by Ukraine.
“Our hearts are not simply thirsting for revenge or retribution,” Dugin wrote. “We only need our victory (against Ukraine). My daughter has sacrificed her young life on the altar of victory. So please win!”
Flowers and candles are positioned subsequent to a portrait of media commentator Darya Dugina, who was killed in a automobile bomb assault (Photo: Reuters)
Russia’s FSB safety service stated the assault was carried out by a Ukrainian girl born in 1979, whom it named and whose image and knowledge appeared on Russian information web sites.
They linked her to Ukraine’s safety providers and accused her of being a member of the Azov battalion, a unit of Ukraine’s military that Russia has designated a terrorist group.
In response, Azov stated the lady had by no means been a member of the unit and accused Russia of concocting a lie.
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The FSB stated the lady had arrived in Russia in July and spent a month getting ready the assault. She had fled to Estonia afterwards, it stated.
Russian legislation enforcement businesses had positioned the lady on the nation’s wished checklist, TASS information company reported, with Moscow in search of her extradition.
Estonia’s inside ministry and police and border guard service stated in separate statements they may share data on people getting into and leaving Estonia “only in cases prescribed by law”, including the FSB allegation didn’t meet that requirement.
People collect at a makeshift memorial for media commentator Darya Dugina (Photo: Reuters)
‘RUSSIAN PATRIOT’
Putin paid tribute to Dugina as a patriot, calling her homicide “evil and cruel”, whereas Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Kremlin-backed RT media organisation, recommended brokers might observe the lady down.
“Estonia, of course will not hand them over,” Simonyan wrote on Telegram. A memorial service for Dugina might be held on Tuesday at Moscow’s TV centre, her father stated.
On Monday, residents of Moscow laid flowers and lit candles at a makeshift memorial. “She was a unique person, and this loss is absolutely irreplaceable,” stated Sergei Sidorov.
Some Russian opposition figures have been sceptical concerning the pace at which the FSB appeared to have solved the case and recommended various variations. Ilya Ponomaryov, a former lawmaker turned Ukraine-based Kremlin critic, stated a beforehand unknown group of Russian militants referred to as the National Republican Army was accountable.
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His assertion and the group’s existence couldn’t be independently verified by Reuters. Russia’s Investigative Committee didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Investigators work on the web site of a suspected automobile bomb assault that killed Darya Dugina (Photo: Reuters)
Ponomaryov was the one member of the State Duma, the decrease home of parliament, to vote towards the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea area in 2014 and later left Russia. Ponomaryov, who runs a web based TV station designed to problem the Kremlin’s narrative of the struggle, learn out a manifesto he stated the group had despatched him.
It stated the group was dedicated to overthrowing Putin and constructing a brand new Russia. Such statements are unlawful inside Russia and those that make them face lengthy jail phrases. His assertion provides to an inventory of attainable theories about who killed Dugina.
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Some folks consider her father was the goal. Ukraine’s Podolyak stated he believed the killing was the results of a battle between Russia’s intelligence providers.
Some Russian opposition activists have speculated the homicide could have been orchestrated by forces inside Russia eager to discourage ultra-nationalists like Dugin from criticising the Kremlin for being, of their eyes, too smooth on Ukraine.
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