The car bomb went off on Saturday night outside Moscow. The Russian editor and political analyst Darja Dugina (29) died in the explosion. She was the daughter of the famous Russian ideologue Aleksandr Dugin. He is considered one of President Vladimir Putin’s most central sources of inspiration for the war in Ukraine. Today, the Russian intelligence service, the FSB, accused Ukraine of being behind it. – The crime was planned and carried out by the Ukrainian intelligence service, writes the FSB in a statement quoted by several Russian news agencies. The FSB claims that it was a woman named Natalja Vovk who killed Dugina. She reportedly arrived in Russia on July 23 with her 12-year-old daughter, and rented an apartment in the building where Dugina lived. Vovk allegedly monitored Dugina from his car, a Mini Cooper, and changed the number plate several times, according to the FSB. When entering Russia, the car must have had plates from the Ukrainian breakaway republic of Donetsk, in Moscow the car had Kazakh plates and when leaving Ukrainian plates. The FSB also claims that the woman was at the same festival as Darja Dugina and her father Aleksandr before the assassination, and that she allegedly followed Dugina’s car. After the explosion, Vovk and his daughter are said to have driven to Estonia. Ukrainian authorities have denied that they are behind the attack. According to an adviser to the president of Ukraine, the FSB’s version is Russian propaganda, writes the BBC. Investigators in Moscow are examining the site where Darja Dugina was killed by a car bomb outside Moscow on Saturday night. Photo: Russian Investigative Committee / handout / AFP Researcher: Unlikely that Ukrainian intelligence is behind the information from the FSB may initially seem credible, says Tom Røseth. He is the head teacher in intelligence at the Norwegian Defense Academy. Nevertheless, he believes it is unlikely that Ukrainian intelligence has carried out the operation. – I doubt that Ukraine has a political interest in doing this, says Røseth Tom Røseth is head teacher in intelligence at the Norwegian Defense College. He believes that Russian intelligence has not presented good enough evidence that Ukraine was behind the car bomb in Moscow on Saturday. Photo: The Norwegian Defense Forces He says it is associated with great risk to carry out such operations. Among other things, it could lead to Moscow wanting to brand Ukraine as a terrorist state, thereby exposing the country to revenge actions. Ukraine may also risk receiving less support from Western countries, says Røseth. In addition, Ukraine has, so far in the war, been very careful about striking targets inside Russia, says Røseth. Hitting civilians would give Russia a pretext to hit back hard at the leadership in Kyiv. It could also lead to Russia striking even harder against civilian targets in Ukraine, he believes. If the FSB is right, then there will be a major change in Ukrainian behavior, says Røseth. The strongly nationalist ideologue Aleksandr Dugin says in a statement that the murder of his daughter was a “terrorist act committed by the Ukrainian Nazi regime”, writes the BBC. Photo: MOSCOW NEWS AGENCY / Reuters – Moscow has lied many times in this war He believes it is convenient for the Russian authorities to accuse Ukraine of being behind the car bomb. – It fits well with Moscow’s rhetoric to brand Kyiv as a terrorist regime. Moscow has lied many times in this war. It may well be that they want to pursue this case to legitimize strong actions against Kyiv and Ukraine on Independence Day on Wednesday and the six-month marking of the war, says Røseth. At the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned against Russian provocations on Independence Day. Røseth says that too little is known about the actual conditions to say anything for sure about who is behind it. He points out that within a short time the FSB has submitted a number of details linked to the two suspects from the time they entered Russia until they allegedly left the country. – If the FSB has managed this in such a short time, it is a good piece of intelligence work, but it also seems a bit hasty, says Røseth. – An ugly and brutal criminal act took the life of Darja Dugina, a skilled, talented person with a real Russian heart, writes Russian President Vladimir Putin in a message to Dugina’s father, the extreme ideologue Aleksandr Dugin. Photo: PAVEL BYRKIN / AFP
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