Putin propagandist killed by car bomb on Saturday

JTFMax:

Russian propagandist Darya Dugina (29) was killed in a car bomb attack near Moscow on Saturday evening.

Dugina was a prominent advocate of the brutal attack on Ukraine. According to Moscow media reports, she was on the UK sanctions list for spreading propaganda and fake news about the Ukraine war.

Ukraine's presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak (50) in Kyiv: The Ukrainian government sharply rejects Russia's accusations that a Ukrainian agent is said to have killed Dugina.

“Ukraine is certainly not involved in the murder of Ms. Dugina. This is, in many ways, meaningless to Ukraine. The Dugin family is not an object that can be attributed to the active organizers and moderators of the war. They are just elements of Russia's general hysterical propaganda system." Podolyak told the press.

Podolyak further said: "Targeted terrorist actions, during which someone is eliminated on the territory of the Russian Federation, is not the way of Ukraine. Ukraine is waging a war of liberation.”

It is "absurd" to claim that a Ukrainian sabotage group can work in the most protected Odintsovsky district of the Moscow region. 

Podolyak: "The part of the political spectrum of the Russian Federation that benefits from the death of Ms. Dugina support the mobilization for escalation, the radicalization of hostilities, and the possibility of using types of weapons that are prohibited by various conventions."

On Sunday (21 August), former Russian MP Ilya Ponomarev (47) claimed that Russian partisans were behind the attack. The ex-politician, who lives in Ukraine, spoke on a Russian-language, oppositional TV station he co-founded.

When asked what he thought of the statements made by the former Kremlin deputy, Ukraine's presidential adviser Podolyak replied: "Of course, this information from Mr. Ponomarev has to be verified. We believe that in Russia, there is a potential for a partisan movement, a potential for a protest movement, especially in ethnic republics."

Podolyak continued: "We believe that to the extent that Russia suffers military defeats on the territory of Ukraine, to the extent that Russia loses economically, protest movements will grow."

Darya Dugina was the daughter of the right-wing nationalist Alexander Dugin, whom the media repeatedly called "the whisperer," "Putin's brain," or his "Rasputin" (after the famous impostor at the court of the last Russian tsar).

Dugin is regarded as the mastermind of a "Great Russian Empire from Dublin to Vladivostok" and already declared during the Russian attack on Ukraine in 2014: "You have to kill, kill, kill Ukrainians - and I'm telling you this as a professor."

Some even refer to Dugin as the actual "idea generator" for the brutal attack on Ukraine.

Was the attack aimed at him? It is possible that the investigators initially left this open. Under certain circumstances, Dugina drove her father's car while he drove in a car behind his daughter.