Daughter of Putin ally killed in car bombing outside Moscow
Russians called for attacks on Ukrainian government buildings after the death of a Putin ally’s daughter in a car bombing outside Moscow.
Patrick Colson-Price, USA TODAY
The car bomb that killed hardline TV commentator Daria Dugina near Moscow was the work of a Ukrainian woman who fled to Estonia after the blast, state-run Russian news agencies reported Monday.
“The crime was prepared and committed by the Ukrainian special services,” Tass said in a Telegram post Monday.
Ukraine authorities have vehemently denied any connection to the explosion Saturday. Dugina was the daughter of prominent Russian nationalist Alexander Dugin.
Angry Russians called for attacks on Ukrainian government buildings, and Ukraine government workers were told to work from home this week. The Kyiv military administration has banned mass events in the city through Thursday due to the “high probability” of rocket attacks.
Russian security services said suspect Natalia Vovk arrived in Moscow a month ago with her daughter and rented an apartment in the building Dugina lived in. On the day of the blast, Vovk and Shaban attended the literary and music festival Tradition, where Dugina was an honorary guest. After the remote-controlled explosion, Vovk and her daughter fled through the Pskov Region to Estonia, the security services said.
Saturday was Estonia’s Restoration of Independence Day, marking 31 years since the end of Russia’s occupation of the nation of 1.3 million people.
Latest developments:
►Air defenses in the Crimean city of Sevastopol repelled a Ukrainian assault at a military airfield, said Russian-appointed regional leader Mikhail Razvozhayev via Telegram on Sunday, a day after a drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea fleet in the same city also apparently failed.
►Ukraine’s military said it destroyed two Russian ammunition depots in the villages of Chornobaivka in Kherson and Starytsia in Kharkiv. The Kremlin said it destroyed an ammunition depot in the Odesa region where missiles for U.S. multiple-rocket launchers known as HIMARS were stored.
Direct losses to the Ukrainian economy from the war have reached $113.5 billion, said Maksym Nefyodov, head of reform support projects at the Kyiv School of Economics Institute, during a nationwide television marathon, Ukrinform reports.
Images of the destruction and damage to the infrastructure of Ukraine, collected with the help of UAVs and satellites, are being actively analyzed to record the damage caused and to prepare for restoration of devastated cities, Nefyodov said.
“There is another direction of our research – needs for recovery,” Nefyodov said. “And the ‘Russia Will Pay’ project is actively developing in this direction.”
Contributing: The Associated Press
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