The daughter of Putin ally Alexander Dugin was killed in a car bombing Saturday in Moscow.
29-year-old Daria Dugina died after her vehicle exploded while she was driving it.
It is believed that the car bomb may have been meant for Dugin himself.
Video has surfaced which allegedly shows Dugin on the scene as the car is still on fire.
Dugin helped lay the groundwork for Russian president Vladimir Putin‘s invasion of Ukraine.
Russian authorities have opened up a murder investigation.
Video of the aftermath was posted to Twitter:
BREAKING: Daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, who is often called "Putin's brain," killed in car explosion near Moscow pic.twitter.com/pSkBK8ENGO
— BNO News (@BNONews) August 20, 2022
⚡️ Daughter of Alexander Dugin, ideologist behind Kremlin's war in Ukraine, killed near Moscow.
Daria Dugina, 29, was killed by a car bomb on Aug. 20. She was an active supporter of Russia's war against Ukraine, and was sanctioned by U.S.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 21, 2022
Today, the Head of the Presidential Administration in Ukraine, Andrey Yermak, said that, "Our task is to make sure that not only the current generation of Russians, but their children and grandchildren will pay". Eight hours later, Alexander Dugin's daughter Darya was killed. pic.twitter.com/tSNhsxTR7A
— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) August 20, 2022
It is reported that car was blown up with Daria Dugina in suburbs of Moscow. She was daughter of Alexander Dugin (a person close to Putin highly engaged in propaganda). Reportedly she died on spot. She was also in British sanctions list from 4th of July.
Partisans now in Moscow? pic.twitter.com/QknAJFFHGz— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) August 20, 2022
Breaking news: Russia opened a murder investigation into a car blast near Moscow that killed the daughter of an influential ally of President Vladimir Putin.https://t.co/s42jvf4XaS
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 21, 2022
Russia has officially opened up a murder investigation.
The New York Times has the latest on the car bombing that killed Daria Dugina:
A car bomb in a Moscow suburb killed the adult daughter of a Russian ultranationalist who helped lay the ideological foundation for President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, a brazen attack that injected new uncertainty into the nearly six-month-long war.
The Russian authorities said on Sunday that they had opened a murder investigation into the death a night earlier of Daria Dugina, 29, after the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving exploded on a highway 20 miles west of Moscow and burst into flames, scattering pieces across the road.
Ms. Dugina was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin — a self-educated philosopher and long a leading proponent of an aggressive, imperialist Russia who has been urging the Kremlin to escalate its assault on Ukraine.
Russian state television described the powerful explosion that shattered the windows of nearby homes as a “terrorist act” that had targeted Mr. Dugin and ended up killing his daughter because he took a different car at the last minute.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident.
It is still unclear if Dugin was indeed the target, or if his daughter was all along.
Looks like there was an assassination attempted on Alexander Dugin that killed his daughter, fair to say things will escalate a lot from here!
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) August 20, 2022
Alexander Dugin on the assassination spot. May be I was wrong and he was the real target here pic.twitter.com/Ttq694y7Gn
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) August 20, 2022
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