Her murder added fuel to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict Daria Duginadaughter of Russian nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin, in front of her father last Saturday evening on the outskirts of Moscow.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) yesterday directly blamed Ukraine’s security services for the murder of 30-year-old Dugina, alleging that a Ukrainian woman named Natalia Vovk was responsible for the murder. According to the FSB, Vovk arrived in Russia around the end of July with her teenage daughter and rented an apartment in the same building where the victim lived in order to monitor him. Last Saturday, she and her daughter attended a music festival attended by Dugina and blew up her car, detonating an explosive device planted under the driver’s seat.

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The FSB claims that after that Wofk fled to Estonia and will be put on the wanted list in Russia. The Estonian government yesterday refrained from any comments on this matter, and Kyiv categorically denied any involvement in the murder. “Of course, Ukraine has nothing to do with what happened, because we are not a criminal state, like the Russian Federation, and certainly not a terrorist state,” said Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.

The interlocutor of Russian President Vladimir Putin and one of the founders of the “Eurasian” school, 60-year-old Alexander Dugin, advocated the integration of the Russian-speaking regions of the former Soviet republics into the Russian Federation, if necessary by force, while his daughter militantly defended the invasion of Ukraine in her speeches on television.

On that fateful Saturday evening, Dugin was in his car behind his daughter’s car and saw it explode before his eyes. In his first reaction to the tragic event, he wrote: “Our hearts do not just yearn for revenge and retribution. We just need a victory (over Ukraine). My daughter sacrificed her short life on the altar of victory. So I beg you to win.”

Zelensky banned public events for the anniversary of independence for fear of Russian attacks.

In Ukraine, which is preparing to celebrate its 31st anniversary of independence tomorrow, exactly six months after the start of the Russian invasion, there are widespread fears that the assassination of Daria Dugina could be the catalyst for a sharp escalation of enemy attacks. In his latest taped message to the Ukrainian people, Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Russia was likely to do “something particularly bad” ahead of the anniversary on Wednesday and urged greater vigilance.

In the spirit of Zelenskiy’s warnings, the Kyiv authorities have banned mass events, rallies and marches to mark the anniversary of independence, citing fears of deadly rocket attacks. In the country’s second most populous city, Kharkiv, where Russian-speakers make up the majority, the city government announced an extension of the ban on traffic from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. until 7 am

Missile attacks

In the last 24 hours, the Russian army launched rocket and artillery strikes both on the Donbass front, near the city of Bakhmut, and on the southern front, in the direction of the port of Nikolaev. In addition, rockets were fired at Nikopolis, on the opposite bank of the Dnieper, where the Russian-controlled Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant is located.

Last Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron, after a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin, announced that the Russian president had agreed to the inspection of the station by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Restraint on both sides in the Zaporozhye issue was recommended after a telephone conversation by Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron and Boris Johnson, insisting on the need to send a team of IAEA inspectors as soon as possible.