The daughter of the Russian ultra-nationalist also known as “Putin’s brain” was killed Saturday after her car exploded in a potential contract killing, the nation’s major investigative physique stated in a press release.
Daria Dugina “died on the spot,” after the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving exploded in Bolshye Vyazemy, a small village to the southeast of Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee stated in a press release posted to its Telegram channel.
“The investigation believes that the crime was planned in advance and is of a contract nature,” the assertion stated, including that investigators had “established that the explosive device was placed under the bottom of the car on the driver’s side.”
A murder inquiry has been launched, the assertion stated.
NBC News has not been in a position to independently confirm this information.
Dugina, 29, was the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a distinguished proponent of the “Russian world” idea ideology and a vehement supporter of Russia’s sending of troops into Ukraine.
Although Dugin doesn’t maintain an official authorities place, he’s believed to have affect over Russian President Vladimir Putin.
His daughter had expressed related views and had appeared as a commentator on the nationalist TV channel Tsargrad.
“Dasha, like her father, has always been at the forefront of confrontation with the West,” Tsargrad stated on Sunday, utilizing the acquainted kind of her title, the Associated Press reported.
Denis Pushilin, head of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic blamed it on “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to kill Alexander Dugin.”
However, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, denied on Sunday that his nation was concerned within the demise. “We are not a criminal state,” he stated on Ukrainian tv.
Dugin was first sanctioned by the United States in 2015 and was the chief of the Eurasian Youth Union, recruiting combatants to battle on behalf of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, the U.S. Treasury stated in a news launch final week.
His daughter Dugina was the chief editor of the “United World International” web site that steered Ukraine would “perish” if admitted to NATO, and was additionally sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in March.
The U.Ok. Government additionally known as her a “frequent and high-profile contributor of disinformation related to Ukraine” when it sanctioned her in July. “Dugina has therefore provided support for and promoted policies or actions which destabilise Ukraine or undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine,” it stated in a press release.
Associated Press and Reuters contributed.
