Former deputy of the Russian Federation Ilya Ponomaryov says that Russian partisans are responsible for blowing up the car in which Oleksandr Dugin’s daughter Daria Dugin was, who died on the spot after the car exploded, writes The Guardian.

Speaking in Kyiv, Ilya Ponomarev said the bomb that killed the daughter of Vladimir Putin’s “spiritual leader” on Sunday was the work of the underground group the National Republican Army, which he said was a group working inside Russia to topple the regime Putin

The Guardian did not verify the authenticity of Ponomaryov’s statements. Russian officials accused Ukraine of the attack, Kyiv categorically denies this claim.

“This action, like many other guerrilla actions carried out on the territory of Russia in recent months, was carried out by the National Republican Army (NRA),” Ponomaryov told the Russian-language opposition TV channel “February Morning”, which he founded in Kyiv at the beginning. this year.

He added: “Last night an important event took place near Moscow. This attack opens a new page in the Russian resistance to Putinism. Nine, but not the last.”

Ponomaryov said guerrillas in Russia were poised to lead other similar attacks on key targets linked to the Kremlin, including officials, oligarchs and members of the Russian intelligence services.

• The former deputy read the alleged manifesto of the NRA: “We declare President Putin a usurper of power and a war criminal who changed the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between the Slavic peoples and sent Russian soldiers to certain death and no sense.
• Poverty and coffins for some, palaces for others are the essence of his politics. We believe that disenfranchised people have the right to rise up against tyrants. Putin will be overthrown and destroyed by us!”

Ponomaryov confirmed his comments in a text message. A member of the Russian parliament from the left forces, he was the only member of parliament who voted against the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

The Kremlin banned him from re-entering his own country during his trip to the USA. He became a citizen of Ukraine in 2019. In March, after the invasion of Ukraine, he launched “February Morning” and the “Rozpartisan” Telegram channel, which provides news about anti-war actions in Russian cities.

An explosive device was allegedly planted under Daria Dugina’s car

At the “Tradition” festival near Moscow, unknown people planted explosives in the car in which Daria Dugina died, according to Russian investigators, TASS cites.

Police say the car that exploded and killed Daria Dugin was parked in a parking lot where anyone could plant an explosive device.

Daria Dugina, who was driving the SUV, died on the spot.

In the pictures, which show the first moments after the explosion, you can see Oleksandr Dugin, who arrives at the place and puts his hands on his head.

Russia accuses Ukraine of murdering Daria Dugina, Kyiv denies

The leader of the Donetsk “People’s Republic” (DNR), self-proclaimed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Denys Pusilin, on Sunday accused Ukrainian forces of complicity in the murder of Daria Dugina.

“Terrorists of the Ukrainian regime tried to eliminate Oleksandr Dugin, but blew up his daughter,” Pushylin accuses in a Telegram post.

“If the Ukrainian trail is confirmed (…), and this should be verified by the competent authorities, then it will be a matter of the policy of state terrorism carried out by the Kyiv regime,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded to the post by telegram.

Later, Kyiv denied any connection with the death of journalist Daria Dugina, daughter of Oleksandr Dugin.

“Ukraine, undoubtedly, has nothing to do with yesterday’s (Saturday night) explosion, because we are not a criminal state,” Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, emphasized in a televised speech.

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