A friend of Darya Dugina confirmed to Russian news agency TASS that she was killed when the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado blew up.
Her father was supposed to take the car but got in a different vehicle at the last moment, violinist Pyotr Lundstrem told the outlet.from the Baza’s Telegram channel apparently shows a distraught father holding his hands on his head incredulously as the wreckage burns behind him.
Denis Pushilin, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in the occupied Donbas region of Ukraine,“terrorists of the Ukrainian regime,” for the blast in a Telegram post. Other pro-Kremlin Telegram channels also pointed fingers at Ukraine. Russian authorities are investigating whether or not the explosion was a targeted hit on Alexander Dugin, a well-known political philosopher and proponent of the “Russian World” and “New Russia” ideologies that some have said pushed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.“War with Ukraine is inevitable, but so far we have done only half of the task,” he told The Associated Press in 2016.