The Kremlin leader had been severely assailed by Alexander Dugin, also referred to as “Putin’s Rasputin,” just before his daughter Darya was killed by a car bomb.
In the days before the fatal blast, there had been an online effort to degrade Dugin; it now appears that it was meant for him rather than his daughter.
The information supports the allegation that 29-year-old TV personality and ultranationalist commentator Darya Dugina was murdered by Putin-aligned Russian special forces or other groups.
Ukraine has vehemently denied any involvement in the murder in Moscow and charged Moscow with staging a “false flag” operation to place the blame on Kyiv.
The SBU, Kyiv’s special services, were allegedly behind the murder, according to an allegation made by the Russian FSB today. Natalia Vovk, a woman born in 1979, was allegedly the target of the hit.
According to SHOT media, she and her 12-year-old daughter Sophia Shaban arrived in Russia on July 23.
“The girl [Dugina] was being spied on using a Mini Cooper.” Three different sets of numbers were utilized, including those from the DPR, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine, according to SHOT.
According to the evidence, Vovk and her daughter came to the Tradition festival on the day of the crime and left for Estonia via Pskov on August 21 following a staged explosion.
This account of the events is reportedly being investigated by the Russian Investigative Committee.
One and a half kilometers after she exited an exclusive parking lot where it is thought to have been mined, her Toyota Land Cruiser was struck by an explosion.
According to reports, the explosive may have been set off remotely. According to some experts, it was the equivalent of “a simultaneous explosion of six grenades” and held 400 to 800g of TNT.
Dugin, who was observed at the scene of the incident clutching his head in his hands in astonishment, is apparently now in the hospital.
He had published an angry online post on Telegram seven hours prior to the murder, declaring that the conflict in Ukraine now trumped Putin’s government.
According to Dugin, the conflict and the “desperate resistance of the Atlanto-Nazi dictatorship in Kyiv” require “internal adjustments” from Russia.
Putin was being harshly criticized in the tone.
Zelensky’s firm refusal to negotiate, the West’s persistence in severing all ties with Russia, increasing attacks on Crimea, attempts to stage a nuclear explosion in Zaporizhzhya, declarations of a counteroffensive on Kherson, and all these are signs that they have decided to stand to the bitter end, he wrote.
They are understandable: Russia did threaten the West as a civilisation, and this is not propaganda. Therefore, we too must proceed all the way to the end.
We haven’t really started anything yet, according to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief [Putin]. We must now get started. We’re going to have to whether you like it or not.
The issue now is not whether or not the government wants reform, the speaker cautioned. Such changes are simply unavoidable; even if you fight them to the death, you will only be able to postpone them for a maximum of six months. And then they’ll still show up.
He also issued a dire warning to Putin, saying that the military campaign aimed at destroying Ukraine and thwarting the West “is now more essential than the power [itself].”
“The tectonic plates have shifted, and the great forces of history are at work.” Let the previous government bury its dead. Russian time will soon change. And it’s approaching irrevocably.”
The assassination of Dugina was carried out professionally, according to renowned Russian analyst Andrei Piontkovsky, suggesting that the secret services are responsible.
There is no doubt that these were Russian special forces. The ultra-fascist group, which lately began criticizing Putin for “not being fascist enough,” is well recognized for having Dugin as a spiritual advisor.
Piontkovsky claimed that Dugin and his allies had started to alarm Putin’s entourage at a time when Putin was making every effort to put a stop to the fighting.
Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian lawmaker currently living in exile in Ukraine, asserted that the attack was carried out by the National Republic Army, a previously unidentified anti-war organization.
Boryslav Bereza, a former Ukrainian lawmaker, claimed the goal was to eliminate Dugin as a rival for Putin’s attention by hardline groups close to the president.
However, as is often in Russia, things did not go as planned, and Dugin’s daughter was slain instead of him.
Prior to the car explosion, it was said that Dugin was the target of a significant media campaign.
He asserted that the Russian army’s humiliation in Ukraine was the reason relations between him and Putin lately soured.
One of Putin’s former commanders even called the Russian president a “clown” who had been outplayed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as frustration and indignation over Russia’s conflict in Ukraine grew.
“The blowing up of the automobile of the prominent Russian fascist and ideologist of the Putin dictatorship, Alexander Dugin, was orchestrated, it seems, by the Russian security services,” historian Yuri Felshtinsky, author of Blowing up Ukraine, claimed.
In his secured property, the device was linked to Dugin’s car, according to the most recent Russian reports, he said. Unlike Russia, Ukraine focuses on military targets, therefore targeting one of Putin’s media pawns or committing limited operations inside the Russian Federation to such a pointless objective is of little apparent use to the liberation of Ukraine.
However, the Kremlin will probably take advantage of it to make it appear as though Ukraine is resorting to its own tactics of bombing defenseless citizens there.
Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian politician, asserted as well that the National Republican Party, an unidentified Russian organization, was responsible for the explosion. The group’s existence could not be confirmed.
On Russian television, he declared: “Last night, a historic incident occurred close to Moscow. The Russian opposition to Putinism has a new chapter thanks to this attack. The new one is not the last.
Igor Girkin, a veteran of the intelligence and military who played a key role in the seizure of Crimea and some of the Donbas region in 2014, has made fun of the actions of the Russian president in Ukraine, raising suspicions that Putin’s inner circle may have turned against him and committed the bombing attack.
Girkin claimed that Zelensky was frequently referred to as a “clown” because, before to becoming the presidency, he worked as a TV comic.
However, the conflict followed, said Girkin. Zelensky, he claimed, “didn’t flee” or “hide in a bunker” throughout the conflict like Putin did.
The Ukrainian president said that he had “announced, launched, and carried out a national mobilization” of his nation’s males of military age and “achieved enormous delivery of armaments from NATO,” adding that he had “fooled the Kremlin.”
After his daughter was killed, Dugin, a Russian ultranationalist and fascist who fantasizes about reestablishing a great new empire throughout Europe and Asia, was transported to the hospital.
On Saturday, when he was driving near the village of Bolshiye Vyazyomy outside of the city, he chose to take a different car than his daughter, narrowly escaping death.
Yesterday, Moscow police verified that a bomb had been placed under the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado Dugina was operating.
Putin’s “Rasputin,” the bereaved father, is seen in a heartbreaking video from Baza Media standing at the explosion site.
Emergency services sirens blare as the automobile appears to be on fire. As per reports, she passed away immediately.
Her father, who is thought to be the mastermind behind Putin’s meddling in Ukraine beginning in 2014, was actually supposed to be in the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado that was struck, but the former professor reportedly switched cars at the last second.
Ms. Dugina was returning from a cultural festival she had attended with her father when the explosion happened.
Dugina co-authored a book on Putin’s conflict in Ukraine and served as editor of the pro-Putin publication United World International.
Her father is the author of a far-right perspective on Russia’s place in the world that Putin found appealing.
Just before she was killed, the two were seen together at a pro-Putin public rally.
I knew Darya personally, according to Andrey Krasnov, the leader of the Russian Horizon social movement and a close friend of the deceased.
This was the father’s car, she said. Alexander went one way today, while Darya took his automobile. When he came back, the tragedy’s scene was where he was.
According to what I understand, Alexander or likely both of them were the intended victims.
Despite the lack of any evidence linking Ukraine or its operatives to the incident in Moscow, leading pro-Putin war supporters were quick to call for an all-out assault on Kyiv in response to the supposed assassination.
The leader of the RT “propaganda” network, Margarita Simonyan, wrote on Telegram that it was imperative to destroy Ukraine’s most important “decision-making centers.”
Decision-making centers, she penned. centers for making decisions! centers for making decisions!
Her request matches that of Putin’s hardliners who want him to destroy central Kyiv with numerous missile attacks.
Maxim Kononenko, a propagandist, tweeted: “The address of the SBU’s [Ukrainian secret services] main headquarters is Volodymyrska 33, Kyiv. I’m going to attempt to go to sleep right now, and when I wake up, I’m hoping to see on the news that it was f****** bombed along with its basements.
The potential harm to other pro-Putin propagandists was also foreshadowed.
Denis Pushilin, the leader of the pro-Moscow puppet state in eastern Ukraine known as the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), wrote on Facebook: “The terrorists of the Ukrainian dictatorship, aiming to assassinate Alexander Dugin, blew up his daughter…in a car.” Daria, may she rest in peace, is a true Russian girl.
He accused the “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime” directly.
“A young, educated, gorgeous, very accomplished and sensitive woman,” was how one person characterized Dugina.
Dugin, a far-right occult author who formerly served as editor of the vehemently pro-Putin Tsargrad TV network, is considered as the Russian warmonger’s “guru advisor” despite having no official position in the government and is said to have significant influence over him.
He is credited with revitalizing the phrase Novorossiya (New Russia), which Putin used to defend the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
In his 1997 book Foundations of Geopolitics, Dugin argued for Russian dominance “from Dublin to Vladisvostok,” a fantasy of an expansionist Russia that has long been his. Before he was sanctioned by the US in 2015 for allegedly recruiting troops for Russia-backed groups in the country, he previously declared that not regaining control of Ukraine would be “an huge danger for all of Eurasia.”
The United States Treasury also imposed sanctions on his daughter Darya after she rose to the position of top editor at the website owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is suspected of meddling in the 2016 presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. UWI was where she worked.
The vehicle bombing strikes occurred on Monday as Russian soldiers continued their offensive throughout numerous regions of Ukraine.
Prior to Wednesday, which marks Ukraine’s Independence Day and also marks six months since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Zelensky issued a warning, warning that Moscow would do “something really unpleasant.”
Zelensky claimed that he had spoken with French President Emmanuel Macron about “all the threats,” and that he had also informed other world leaders, such as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
In his nightly video message, Zelenskiy stated of Russia, “All of Ukraine’s partners have been notified of what the terrorist state can prepare for this week.”
Additionally, he claimed that if Russia carried out its plans to extradite Ukrainian defenders captured in Mariupol, it would have broken international law and cut itself off from discussions.
This would be the point beyond which negotiations are no longer feasible, he continued, if this vile show trial were to proceed. There won’t be any more discussions. Everything has been said by our state.
The Financial Times was informed by Gennady Gatilov, the Russian ambassador to the UN in Geneva, that Erdogan had made an effort to promote communication between Russia and Ukraine.
Gatilov, however, shot off rumors that Zelensky and Putin had held direct discussions, claiming there “was not any practical platform for having this meeting.”
According to the Ukraine’s General Staff’s daily report on Monday, Russian forces attacked the Soledar, Zaytseve, and Bilogorivka communities in the eastern Bakhmut region using artillery and multiple rocket launcher systems.
The General Staff noted that they were still concentrating their efforts on taking complete control of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions while retaining the gained territory in Kherson and portions of the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolaiv regions.
The shelling of Nikopol is very worrying.
Four persons were hurt as a result of rocket assaults that occurred overnight in the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Nikopol, Krivyi Rih, and Synelnykovsky neighborhoods, regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said on Telegram on Monday.
According to the local administration, two civilians died in the eastern Ukrainian province of Donetsk over the course of the previous day.
In the meantime, a purported Ukrainian incursion on Saturday resulted in another kamikaze drone strike that struck the Russian Navy’s command center in Crimea and caused a massive explosion.
In spite of frantic efforts from Putin’s men to shoot down the UAV, as seen in a video where repeated gunfire is heard, smoke was observed pouring into the air after the strik
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