Russia says Ukraine killed Putin aide’s daughter

Russia’s Federal Security Force, or FSB—one of the successors to the KGB—said Monday that Ukrainian spy agencies were behind the Saturday killing of Darya Dugina, a journalist and daughter of a prominent Putin aide. A top Ukrainian official said the country had nothing to do with the attack. Dugina died when the car she was in blew up just outside of Moscow. In Monday’s statement, the FSB accused a specific Ukrainian citizen, Natalya Vovk, of perpetrating the killing and then fleeing from Russia to Estonia.

Who is Darya Dugina? The 29-year-old journalist had been sanctioned by the United Kingdom for distributing misinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine across the internet. Her father, Aleksandr Dugin, a nationalist Russian political philosopher who many refer to as “Putin’s brain,” is credited as one of the primary advocates for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Dugina had appeared numerous times as a commentator on the Russian TV channel Tsargrad. She criticized America as a “zombie society” on a TV appearance the week before she died. On the night of her death, Dugina and her father both attended a nationalist cultural festival.

Dig deeper: Read Evgeny Kosykh’s report in WORLD Magazine about how Russians are speaking out against their government.