Investigators opened a legal case into the homicide of Darya Dugina, saying that at round 9.00 p.m. native time on Saturday, close to the village of “Bolshiye Vyazemy, an explosive device, presumably installed in the Toyota Land Cruiser, went off on a public road and the car caught fire,” the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee stated, in accordance to TASS.
“The female driver died at the scene. We established the identity of the deceased: it is journalist and political analyst Daria Dugina,” it added in a put up on Telegram.
Andrei Krasnov, head of the Russky Gorizont (Russian Horizon) social motion and a private acquaintance of the girl’s household, instructed TASS on Sunday that Dugina was killed when her automotive caught fireplace following an explosion.
Krasnov stated he knew Dugina personally and that the automotive she was touring in belonged to her father. He believed Alexander was the true goal of the blast, or probably each of them, Tass reported.
“It’s her father’s car,” Krasnov instructed TASS. “Dasha (Darya) drives another car, but she drove his car today, and Alexander went separately.”
‘Flames fully engulfed it’
When Dugina “turned onto the Mozhaiskoye highway near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemi, there was an explosion, the car caught fire immediately,” Krasnov instructed TASS.
“The flames completely engulfed it. She lost control because she was driving at high speed and flew to the opposite side of the road,” Krasnov added, as cited by TASS.
Images from the aftermath of the explosion started circulating on Russian social media Saturday, showing to present a car on fireplace on the aspect of the street and smashed automotive elements strewn throughout the encircling space. CNN is unable to independently confirm the pictures.
In the meantime, forensic specialists, investigators and specialists in explosive engineering are inspecting the scene.
“Based on the results of the inspection, a number of examinations will be appointed, including forensic, explosive engineering and molecular-genetic. All possible versions of the crime are being probed,” the press service stated, in accordance to TASS.
Dugina, the daughter, was born in 1992 and studied Philosophy at Moscow State University, in accordance to TASS.
In March 2022, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Dugina for her contribution to an article on the United World International (UWI) web site suggesting that Ukraine would “perish” whether it is admitted to NATO. Dugina was UWI’s chief editor.
She claimed in a current interview with the Russian information channel, 1RNK, that the atrocities that occurred in the course of the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian city of Bucha had been American propaganda, chosen as a result of of its phonological similarity to “butcher,” a phrase she connects with US President Joe Biden calling Putin a “butcher” on March 29.
Her father was additionally sanctioned by the United States in in 2015 for being chargeable for, or complicit in actions or insurance policies that threaten peace, safety, stability, or sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine.
In an interview with CNN in 2017, Dugin remarked on many similarities between his concepts and people of former US president Donald Trump. He known as Trump’s inauguration speech discourse “as if I would write it myself.”
He additionally stated that Putin offered inspiration for Trump, “a kind of… example to challenge the status quo, to challenge the conventional wisdom, challenge all this totalitarian principles of globalists and ultra-liberals.”
CNN’s Alex Stambaugh contributed to this report.
