Russia: FSB names another Ukrainian suspect in Daria Dugina’s murder

Russia’s FSB security agency on Monday named another Ukrainian it said was part of the group that killed Daria Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian ultranationalist who believes Ukraine should be absorbed into a new Russian empire.

The FSB said today it had identified what it called another member of a Ukrainian “sabotage and terror group” which it said planned and carried out the assassination.

It said in a statement that the new suspect, a man born in 1978, whom it named and showed CCTV footage, had helped assemble the bomb in a rented garage in Moscow and obtained false documents and license plates for the woman who had planted the bomb in Dugina’s car.

The man had left Russia via Estonia a day before the attack, it said.

In an 11-minute video released by the FSB, CCTV footage shows the man entering Russia on July 30, going in and out of a garage complex in Moscow, collecting, according to the FSB, fake license plates and leaving Russia in the early hours of August 19, the day before Dugina’s murder.

CCTV also showed the Ukrainian woman accused by the FSB of planting the car bomb walking in an area where cars were parked at a festival Dugina had attended shortly before she was killed.

The FSB said the Ukrainian watched Dugina, made sure she had left the festival, then followed her in a car and detonated the car bomb that killed her.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov vowed to show “no mercy” for those responsible for her death.

At a memorial service in Moscow last week, Alexander Dugin said his daughter had fallen on the front line and called on Russia to secure “victory” in Ukraine in her name.

Dugina, who, like her father Alexander Dugin, was a staunch supporter of what Russia calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, was killed in a car bomb attack outside Moscow on August 20, in an action that the Russian President Vladimir Putin called it a “despicable, cruel crime”.