Woke to the awful news that Darya Dugina has been assassinated via car bomb. Her father Alexander Dugin was on the scene. They murdered a young woman just to get to her father. That is the nature of our enemy.
I can no longer stay silent. Such an escalation will not be forgiven pic.twitter.com/idOLwtqwOx
— Syrian Girl 🇸🇾🎗 (@Partisangirl) August 20, 2022
No one I talked to in Russia's national-security establishment gave Dugin any weight. Most had never heard of him.
He was far more famous in the West than he was influential inside the Kremlin.
This car bombing wasn't a message to Russia.
It was a performance for America.— Clint Ehrlich (@ClintEhrlich) August 21, 2022
They would say they didn’t do it, wouldn’t they?
RT:
Kiev has nothing to do with the assassination of Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian political commentator and philosopher Alexandr Dugin, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on Sunday.
Speaking on Ukraine’s national television, Mikhail Podoliak said that his country is not “a terrorist state,” an apparent response to suspicion voiced by Russian and allied forces’ officials that Kiev might be behind the bombing.
“I want to stress out that Ukraine, of course, has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state, unlike Russia, and especially not a terrorist state,” he noted.
Podoliak also indicated that the killing of Dugin’s daughter is “a testament to the ongoing struggle for power and influence among various groups in Russia.”
Moreover, he did not rule out that Russia could use the blast as an excuse for announcing a large-scale mobilization amid the military offensive in Ukraine. Moscow has denied all claims it plans to do so, castigating such speculation as “bogus stories.”
Podoliak’s comments came after Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic, accused the “terrorists of Ukrainian regime” of carrying out the bombing. However, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova did not pin the blame on Kiev but noted that if investigators determine that Ukraine is indeed responsible, this “would be the case of state terrorism policies carried out by the Kiev regime.”
Dugina was killed Saturday night outside Moscow when the SUV she was driving was ripped apart in an explosion. According to Russia’s Investigative Committee, the blast was caused by a bomb that had been attached to the underside of the vehicle. Investigators believe the attack to have been premeditated and to be a contract job.
This is a very weird event.
Presumably, whoever did this did mean to kill Dugin. It was his car that he told her to drive home to meet him.
Dugin isn’t a particularly powerful figure, but he is a political commentator who is popular and who has been a very big supporter of the war in the Ukraine.
Who knows if the Ukrainians did it or the CIA did it, but someone did it.
Ukrainians and Western Ukraine Democracy believers are celebrating the assassination on the internet. It does not make them look less guilty.
Russian fascist Dugin: 'What doesn't kill me, kills someone else'. Real prophet. You soon will follow your daughter too, Nazi bastard. pic.twitter.com/qEt8AR8VTs
— Churchill 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@WarAgainstPutin) August 21, 2022
Daughter of the prominent #Russia|n Nazi ideologist Alexander Dugin, Darya Platonova (Dugina) publicly described Ukrainians as “subhumans” and called for the Russian occupation of #Ukraine and extermination of Ukrainian identity. I am sorry if I am not sorry about her death. pic.twitter.com/QA2KRnmacy
— Alex Kokcharov (@AlexKokcharov) August 20, 2022
Dugin must be wondering who his friends are tonight.
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) August 20, 2022
Darya Dugina was a top Nazi propagandist at the Dugin’s Nazi party, called for genocide of the Ukrainians, on her TG channel she urged “to produce fakes vs Ukraine”, visited Azovstal recently, wrote a book about the Z-war. She was not “a daughter” like “an innocent collateral”. https://t.co/dFd1v38jxC
— Sergej Sumlenny (@sumlenny) August 21, 2022
Hope Aleksandr Dugin sleeps well knowing someone is out to kill him in Russia. Couldn’t happen to a better fascist
— Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 (@OlgaNYC1211) August 21, 2022
Dugin raised his daughter Darya to become the same type of mysticist neo-fascist that he is.
She never rebelled against her father’s hateful ideology.
In the months ahead of that car bombing that killed her tonight, she called Ukrainians “subhumans” & said 🇺🇦 must be conquered. pic.twitter.com/V9xIUmLBjH
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 20, 2022
Dugin is not an important person.
I think that basically, the Ukraine most likely did this to get their own people celebrating as they are losing badly in a war and everyone is poor and their houses are destroyed.
While Ukrainians celebrate the death of Dugin’s daughter and boast about their networks of saboteurs, their general staff quietly admits the Kherson counteroffensive is going the wrong direction. Russia widening their bridgehead over the Ingulets River. pic.twitter.com/zgT4Dcso2V
— Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 (@witte_sergei) August 21, 2022
It’s being celebrated all over the Western media as well, so maybe it’s a way to try to get Russia to escalate.
Basically, any actual powerful Russian figure would have protection, so they killed someone without protection who non-Russians think is powerful.