INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE OF RUSSIA
The blame game over who detonated the car bomb that killed the daughter of Vladimir Putin’s “spiritual adviser” to the war in Ukraine is in full swing, with accusations and denials flying.
Darya Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of Alexander Dugin, often called “Putin’s Brain,” died when the car she was traveling in Saturday evening exploded. Sources have said a remote-controlled device was used to detonate a device affixed to the car’s frame and that it had likely been intended for the father, who changed cars at the last minute as the two traveled to Moscow from a cultural festival they attended together. Alexander Dugin was instead in a car behind his daughter when her car blew up, witnessing the devastating explosion.
Since the bombing, Russia has opened a homicide investigation. Russia’s Tass news agency reported Monday that the Russian Secret Service has determined that a Ukrainian woman working for Ukraine special services detonated the bomb. They also claim she brought her 12-year-old daughter with her to do the job. They say the mother-daughter duo attended the same festival and followed Dugina’s car. “The murder of journalist Darya Dugina has been solved, it was prepared by the Ukrainian special services, buy a citizen of Ukraine,” Tass reported Monday. “The criminals used a Mini Cooper car to monitor the journalist.”