Putin’s ally, Alexander Dugin, says his daughter told him she felt ‘like a warrior’ and ‘a hero’ before she was killed in a car bomb | World News
Putin’s ally, Alexander Dugin, said his daughter told him she felt “like a fighter” and a “hero” before dying in a car bomb that Russia blamed on Ukraine.
Darya Dugina, 29, was attending a carnival on Saturday night before a remote-controlled explosive device was plugged into her 4×4 car exploded while she was driving on the outskirts of Moscow.
The car caught fire and the video shows a terrified Dugin with his hands over his head.
The writer and philosopher is said to be the architect or “spirit guide” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is sometimes considered the “brain of Putin”.
Many believe he was the intended target of a bombing that Moscow has blamed on Ukrainian special services.
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Russian media quoted witnesses as saying the 4×4 belonged to Mr Dugin and at the last minute he decided to go in another car.
Speaking at his daughter’s farewell ceremony in Moscow on Tuesday, Mr. Dugin said: “She was fearless. The last words she said during our conversation at the Tradition festival were ‘father, I feel like a warrior, I feel like a hero. I want to be one, I don’t want any different fate.
“‘Want to be with my people, with my country’. “
Mr Dugin also said his daughter “died for the people, died for Russia”.
His voice cracked as he continued: “The great price we have to pay can only be justified by our highest achievement, our victory.
“She lives for victory, and she dies for victory. Russia’s victory, our truth, our Orthodox faith, our state.”
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He made the remarks as hundreds of people attended a ceremony for Ms. Dugina, a commentator on a nationalist Russian TV channel, at the Ostankino TV center in Moscow.
Mr. Dugin had previously urged the Kremlin to step up its activities in Ukraine following the death of his daughter.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a letter of condolence to the Dugins on Monday, denouncing the “barbaric and dangerous murder” and saying that Dugina “honestly served the people.” and the Motherland, demonstrating what it means to be a patriot. Russia with her deeds”.
He presented Ms. Dugina with the Order of Courage, one of Russia’s highest honors.
Alexander Dugin was photographed at the scene of the car bombing
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, reaffirmed the country’s denial of involvement in the bombing.
He said late Monday that “our special services have nothing to do with that”.
The FSB accused a Ukrainian citizen, Natalya Vovk, of committing the murder after arriving in Russia in July with her 12-year-old daughter and renting an apartment in the building where Ms. Dugina lived to hide her.
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Russia claims Ms Vovk and her daughter attended a nationalist festival Mr Dugin and his daughter attended shortly before the murder.
The agency said that Ms Vovk had driven to Estonia after the murder, using a different license plate for her car.
Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu denied Russia’s claim, saying in a televised statement that “we consider this a case of provocation in a long line of provocative actions by the Russian Federation and we I have nothing more to say about it at the moment.”
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The car bombing prompted calls from Russian nationalists to respond by increasing attacks on Ukraine.
Mr. Dugin is a prominent proponent of the concept of the “Russian world”, a political and spiritual ideology that emphasizes traditional values, the restoration of Russia’s global influence and the unity of all nations. Russian people around the world.
He helped popularize the concept of “Novorossiya” or “New Russia” that Russia used to justify Ukraine’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and its support of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine. .
