Darya was killed after the suspected explosive device detonated on the Toyota Land Cruiser she was travelling in
A Russian security agency has accused Ukraine of carrying out a car bombing Saturday that killed the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a key ally of President Vladimir Putin.
Darya Dugina, daughter of a prominent Russian ideologue who advocates that his country should absorb Ukraine, Alexander Dugin, was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow on Saturday evening, Russian state investigators said on Sunday.
Darya was described as a journalist and political expert.
Darya was killed after the suspected explosive device detonated on the Toyota Land Cruiser she was travelling in, the investigators said in a statement.
Russia's TASS state news agency quoted Andrei Krasnov, someone who knew Dugina, as saying the vehicle belonged to her father and that he was probably the intended target.
Ukraine has denied involvement in the killing of Darya Dugina, chief editor of a Russian disinformation website who was herself under U.S. sanctions.
However, the FSB, Russia’s federal security service agency, accused a Ukrainian woman of organising the attack and fleeing for Estonia with her daughter after the car bombing, according to Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti.
The accusation comes after Russia launched a murder investigation into the death of Darya Dugina.
Washington Post reports that an adviser to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainian television on Sunday that Ukraine “certainly had nothing to do with” the attack, arguing the country was “not a criminal state like the Russian Federation is”.