The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) accused Kiev’s secret services of carrying out the car bombing murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin.
On Saturday night, Dugina was driving her father’s Toyota Land Cruiser about 20 miles outside Moscow when an explosive planted beneath his SUV detonated, the car crashed and was engulfed in flames. She was burned beyond recognition. Her father is thought to have been the ultimate target. Though speculation continues and Kiev denies involvement, the FSB identified their prime suspect as Natalya Vovk, a 43-year-old Ukrainian national.
Moscow alleges Vovk is a member of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, a notorious Ukrainian national guard unit. In a statement on Monday, the FSB said the “crime was prepared and committed by Ukrainian special services.” Many in the West have said Dugin is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “brain,” though the closeness of their relationship is widely disputed. Dugin has been a critic of Putin and feels his policy regarding the West and Ukraine is not strong enough.
The Russian intelligence service says Vovk arrived in Russia late last month with her teenage daughter and rented an apartment in a housing block where Dugina lived. Vovk is accused of working as a contractor for Ukrainian special services, carrying out extensive surveillance on Dugina for almost a month in preparation for the attack, including following her around in a Mini-Cooper with different license plates to avoid being detected.
According to the FSB, Vovk and her daughter attended the family festival outside Moscow Saturday evening where Dugin gave a lecture and Dugina was present. There was reportedly a lax security situation at the festival and no precautions were taken at the parking lot’s entrance where Dugin’s SUV was parked. Russian investigators said the bomb was planted under Dugin’s vehicle on the driver’s side. Dugin apparently decided to take a different car, before leaving the event, while Dugina drove off in her father’s SUV. The “controlled explosion” was carried out remotely, killing Dugina while she was on the highway, and Vovk fled to Estonia with her daughter on Sunday, the FSB said.
According to a report in RT, the FSB added that “Vovk used a car with a license plate from the Donetsk People’s Republic when entering Russia, but replaced it with a Kazakhstan license plate when driving in Moscow, and a Ukrainian plate when crossing into Estonia.” The intelligence service also published video footage which purports to show Vovk entering Russia, going inside the apartment building where Dugina lived, and hastily exiting the country. It also shows the various license plates on the same car Vovk appears to be driving.
Reportedly, in April a photo ID of Vovk was published on the Russian internet as part of a dox on members of the Azov Battalion. The ID lists Vovk’s surname as Shaban, which is apparently also the name her daughter used when traveling to Russia. On Telegram, the Azov regiment denied any connection with Vovk and said Moscow was lying.
Tass reported that Moscow seeks Vovk’s extradition from Estonia and added her name to Russia’s wanted list. Liisa Toots, a Estonian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said it is not appropriate to discuss whether Vovk entered Estonia by way of Russia. Toots added they can share information on individuals entering and leaving the country “only in cases prescribed by law” and the FSB accusations do not meet the criteria. Estonia’s police and border guard service added they had not received any such request from Russia at this time. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s President Zelensky, described the FSB’s allegations as “Russian propaganda” and fiction. Kiev further suggested the car bombing was a Russian “false flag” and denied they would have orchestrated the killing because Dugin is a marginal figure.
There is reason to believe Kiev had a role in the attack as unnamed Ukrainian officials, intelligence officers, and special forces sergeants have repeatedly taken credit in the media for multiple sabotage attacks using explosives inside Russia as well as Crimea. Although, this alleged targeted assassination would be a major escalation and Russia has not provided evidence proving Vovk or Ukrainian intelligence is responsible.
In a statement published by the Kremlin, Putin sent his condolences to Dugina’s family saying her murder was a “despicable, cruel crime.” He described Dugina as “a bright, talented person with a real Russian heart – kind, loving, sympathetic and open. A journalist, scientist, philosopher, war correspondent, she honestly served the people, the Fatherland, she proved by deed what it means to be a patriot of Russia.”
According to Al Jazeera, during an appearance on Russian television last week, Dugina dubbed the United States “a zombie society” where people oppose Russia but cannot locate it on a map.
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Yesterday they pointed their finger at UK. The woman who did it, escaped to Estonia where, obviously, they waited for her. The name of the killer is Natalia Vovk. She and her husband both served in far-right military Ukrainian unit Azov.
By UK you meant United Kingdom?
Ukraine = UA
Anyways, glad to see you have all the evidence.
Scum by any name is still scum.
Yes, United Kingdom, of course. It was just an opinion of experts on Russian TV. The fact is, the killer escaped to Estonia. So, it wasn’t just Ukrainian plot. The other countries participated too.
So Joey Biden’s criminal buddy Zelensky turns out to be a bigger monster than thought.
From shelling the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant,
to using band chemical weapons on Russian army positions, to using
illegal mines, and now attacking civilians in Moscow the Ukrainian
fascists are proving their criminal background. This is what happens
when you unleash the dogs of war as obama and his puppet Joey Biden have
done.
Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk, identified as the prime suspected in
Saturday’s car bombing that killed journalist Darya Dugina in Moscow.
Vovk is part of the Security Service of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Служба безпеки
України, romanized: Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrayiny) or SBU (Ukrainian: СБУ).
Vovk also has ties to the CIA and MI6 through the SBU and is trained and supported by these Western Intelligence services.
Can the UK and US get anymore involved in causing World War 3?
!!! Thank you for saying it so succinctly!
You mean like giving the empty suit Obama credit for being the mastermind behind this mess? The same guy that was led around by his nose for eight years? No Obama and no war? Please.
If this would have happened to an American or Ukrainian journalist we would call it an act of terrorism, The US and Ukraine support state terrorism, this is not the first time.
“This is what happens when you unleash the dogs of war as obama and his puppet Joey Biden have done.”
This is a very superficial statement!!! Obama, however, can be accused of wanting two terms as President.
obama is on his third term as he directs Joey Biden to do his bidding!
More superficiality. Your MAGA hat is showing!!!
No I am an Independent and will chose the best candidate to vote for in 2024.
It appears the investigation will not repeat the mistake in making public prematurely key information. As they diid in Navalni case. By revealing the existence of camera footage at airport cafe, Navalni team was able to switch to scenatio B — as ridiculous as it was. If the investigators were not eager to counter the cafe story, it would have been easy to prove the lie.
In the early reports, there was a mention of car camera they were looking at. This certainly would have been footage from nearby car or cars. But no mention of it later. This footage had to have been the key to such swift identification. Which may be the only evidence if this woman being actually present at the festival,
The question is — what else does it show?
They can afford to wait. If indeed this person is
innocent and misidentified — it will be possible for her to provide account of her whereabouts for the last month.
But while the information war intensifies — as Ukraine and US cannot afford to loose it — real war continues. Not very favorably to Ukraine. Both on Donbas front or Mykolaevo.
The problem for US is that Biden administration carelessly morphed this war into OUR. war. Sanctions are substituting for wartime marshall laws. Russia is certainly looking at this information warfare escallation as a further indication that Biden’s strategists are not giving him a way out,
While we can’t know for sure who did this, it definitely looks professional. The US media narrative that this was probably infighting within Russia is the only safe one to assert, but doesn’t make much sense. Powerful explosives, passable documentation, a variety of valid license plates and various other expensive resources required to pull this off suggest a carefully planned operation by a national spy agency. Even careful plans don’t go perfectly, there were more people they wanted to murder but didn’t.
One of the many aggressive western governments or Ukraine probably were behind this. But that’s of course not a provocation, nor were there any western provocations before history began with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Or perhaps history began with the 2014 Crimea annexation. It’s just a mystery how America came to be or how the Nazis were defeated. Do American schools now hand out A+’s to anyone who can scribble “Russia bad” on history tests…? If CNN’s “reporters” are any indication, then yes.
If Daria Dugina was actually the target, rather than her father, I could see that pointing to Azov Battalion or its aligned elements in the Ukrainian military/intel apparatus. She traveled to Donbas when the Azovstal plan finally fell to film herself capering in the ruins and celebrating.
Militarily it makes no sense at all, and politically it would be an own goal on the global stage, but it might make sense as a simple “revenge killing” to demonstrate Azov’s reach.
It does look like simple state terrorism, all three intelligence services work together and the Ukrainians would do nothing without US consent. They could count on all the logistic support needed inside Russia by the undercover agents operating in Russia.
More less by accident only the young woman was killed, it would have killed any passengers in the car too. Collateral damage. Maybe they try to undermine Putin’s popularity? He was sick and almost dying and so many other little stories were told, so far nothing worked. The Skripals and Navalny fit in too.
It would not be an own goal if the outcome now sought by Ukraine is to escalate the war, meaning to force NATO to intervene to defend Ukraine.
That is the only way Ukraine would now win in a military sense. The meat grinder is pushing its own forces toward collapse, as it did Germany before.
Of course. It sure looks like the Kiev Neo Nazi regime is looking for a game changer. Whether it be shelling a nuclear power plant, threatening the Kerch bridge, sabotage in Crimea, attacks on villages in Russia, or now murdering a civilian journalist who had the temerity to report on the cowardice and brutality of the odious regime’s openly fascist and racist paramilitary in Mariupol. The Kiev Neo Nazi entity is losing territory everyday. And taking unsustainable casualties. It is clearly losing the conventional war, and is incapable of stopping the Russian advance, much less counterattacking and retaking territory. It relies on PR “victories,” but those only go so far. It now needs something to change. It needs some kind of direct, overt, NATO intervention, and, perhaps, figures it might get it if it provokes Russia into escalating.
Why would Ukraine expect to be able to “escalate the war” by murdering the (little known OUTSIDE Russia) journalist daughter of someone the Russian hasbarists here insists is a nobody INSIDE Russia? As “escalate the war” tactics go, that’s only slightly more aggressive than buying radio air time for “Putin is a big ol’ poopyhead” commercials.
“capering in the ruins”
The CIA has lots of undercover agents inside Russia to prepare the stage. NGOs offer outstanding cover.
I’d be surprised if the CIA had anything to do with this. It worked. The CIA has shown only incompetence, everywhere it tries such stuff.
They did not have much to do, just consent, the proxies can handle it and take responsibility for failure too. You are right , the CIA has been failing big time, even Venezuela was a huge failure, they blew it, and Bolton was there to help too. He told the story in his book too, he is a lot of things but he was not lying in reference to Venezuela, you can’t make that up.
Apparently she made it to Austria according to Estonian sources.
She did what she was hired to do, now, the safest place for her to be right now is in fact Russia. I would be surprised if she survives to sundown.
‘Putin’s brain’. He’s not even a Steve Bannon, he is a wannabe Steve Bannon who never even met Putin. Our MSM just parrots whatever their U.S. govt handlers tell them.
To state the obvious, this is monstrous and tragic on so many levels:
This murder was organized and planned outside of Russia by SBU, prob MI6, CIA, Mossad; I include all of these assignation bureaus as that is what they do.
(See https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/washingtons-assassination-bureau/
This creature took her daughter along on this murder mission as cover and maybe assistance-ghastly;
She was supported in Moscow with explosives, rental arrangements, etc
The question I have, and this hind sight second guessing, was FSB on top of their game, she was in data register in April, obviously her movements were well tracked in Moscow, and yet the murder occurred and she fled to Estonia. The murderer must have seen or realized that the father was not in his vehicle with bomb attached and yet she triggered the bomb.
The question is who was the target, father or daughter or both? And why? They were not important to the Kremlin, as the western press moronic stenographers assert. Father never met Putin.
I was more than a tad unfair in questioning FSB as to whether they were on top of their game: they indeed were on top of the issue in reviewing the video footage from surveillance cameras; FSB was not tracking her directly but quickly reviewed camera footage pertaining to her movements and ID’ed her. Excellent job!
Recommend article (German, needs translation) Kiev directed
https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/2022/von-soros-und-kiew-unterstuetzte-gruppe-steht-hinter-dem-mord-an-darja-dugina/?doing_wp_cron=1661276514.1538589000701904296875
And so, begins the Al-Qaeda faze of the Ukrainistan saga. This is just the beginning. Just like the Afghan Trap set by Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzinski, this proxy war will collapse into a colossal flock of chickens that will come home to roost across the world. The Azov Battalion are an Aryan Mujahedeen and the violence they’ll spread thanks to America’s tax-plundered largesse will only gift the Dr. Frankensteins in the Military Industrial Complex more excuses to expand their power to reign in that with which their power has wrought. Terrorism is the gift that just keeps on giving. Thank you, Victoria Nuland, your legacy of brutality is intact.
So no surprise a new “Russian partisan” group has been invented to blame the bombing on. So says Business Insider and Ukrainian media noting that people had previously been unaware of this group…the one that wants to stick it to Putin by bombing a guy who never met him and is in charge of…nothing.