Russian President Vladimir Putin is under attack as his powerful ally’s daughter was killed on Saturday after the car that she was reportedly driving exploded near Moscow.
In the information released by Russia’s main investigative authority, the victim was revealed to be the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a far-right Russian nationalist who assisted Putin in shaping the Kremlin’s narrative about Ukraine.
Reports revealed that the 29-year old daughter of Dugin was driving her father’s car from a festival they both attended at that time when the explosion suddenly occurred.
The incident prompted the Russia’s Investigative Committee to open a criminal murder case and is currently looking into the incident amid the current batte between Russia and Ukraine.
In the report released by the Washington Post, the committee reportedly claimed that “A Toyota Land Cruiser went off at full speed on a public highway and caught fire, it said, after an explosive device planted under the bottom of the car on the driver’s side blew up. The driver, identified by the committee as journalist and political scientist Daria Dugina died at the scene. It said early evidence pointed to a murder for hire.”
Darya Dugina: Daughter of Putin ally killed in Moscow bomb.
The daughter of a close ally to Russia's President Vladimir Putin has reportedly been killed near Moscow.
According to state media, Darya Dugina died after her car exploded in flames while she was driving home. pic.twitter.com/i0CqNVuERb
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Following the victim’s unexpected death, Dugin’s friend Andrey Krasnov released a statement during an interview with the state-run media outlet Tass.
“She was driving another car but she took his car today,” and added that he believed her father was the target of an attack, “or maybe the two of them.”
“The car caught fire immediately [following the explosion]. She lost control, because she was driving at speed, and flew to the opposite side of the road.” Krasnov added.
Dugin is known for being an “anti-American” and “anti-Western.” Following Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine, he claimed that the decision-making in the Kremlin was “obscure” even to him.
“Nobody, not even top officials, know for sure who or what Putin is listening to. Anything anyone tells you about how Putin decides things is either disinformation, or error.” Dugin claimed.
Anton Shekhovtsov, director of the Vienna-based Center for Democratic Integrity also spoke about Putin’s ally, stating that he “is definitely anti-American, anti-liberal, anti-Western. But the Kremlin or Putin do not need Dugin to be anti-American and anti-Western.”
Furthermore, Dugin’s daughter is also known to be a supporter of Russia and had been supporting the war in Ukraine and Russian expansion.
