Russian security service accuses Ukraine of killing ultranationalist’s daughter
- Darya Dugina, whose father Alexander Dugin is a prominent ideologue, was killed on Saturday evening when a bomb blew up the car she was driving near Moscow
- He said his daughter was killed before his own eyes by Ukraine and that she ‘sacrificed her young life on the altar of victory. So please win!’
Russia’s Federal Security Service on Monday accused Ukraine’s secret services of killing Darya Dugina, the daughter of a Russian ultranationalist, in a car-bomb attack near Moscow.
Dugina, whose father Alexander Dugin is a prominent ideologue, was killed on Saturday evening when a bomb blew up the Toyota Land Cruiser that she was driving, Russian investigators said.
Ukraine, which is defending itself from what it says is an imperial-style war of conquest mounted by Russia, has denied involvement in the fatal attack.
Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special military operation”.
Alexander Dugin, 60, has advocated violence to achieve the unification of Russian-speaking and other territories in a new Russian empire. Darya, who appeared regularly on state TV, was a strong supporter of Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
In his first public statement on his daughter’s death, he said Darya had been savagely killed before his own eyes by Ukraine.