Daria Dugin, who is the daughter of Alexander Dugin, was reportedly in the vehicle when the vehicle exploded on Saturday night. “A Toyota Land Cruiser Prado exploded near the village of Velyki Vyazomy on the outskirts of Moscow, killing the driver, law enforcement officials told us,” Russian state media TASS reported, also citing the Washington Post. The Washington Post reported this memo. “The daughter of Putin’s top adviser Aleksandr Dugin was killed in a car explosion in the Moscow region, according to Russian state media outlet Tass. Daria Dugina was reportedly driving her father’s car from a festival they were attending when the explosion occurred, engulfing the car in flames, a friend of Dugin’s told Tass. A firefighter works to put out a fire at a car parts warehouse in St. Petersburg on October 17, 2015. A car explosion in Moscow on August 20, 2022, reportedly claimed the life of Daria Dugin, the daughter of a Putin ‘propagandist’.” Photo by OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images Ukrainian media outlet Pravda reported that Aleksandr Dugin has been the driving force behind Russian propaganda since the 2014 invasion of Crimea and one of the architects of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. “Dugin is on the US sanctions list against persons guilty of aggression against Ukraine. Dugin is the founder of the ideological movement “Neo-Eurasianism” and his political activity aims to create a Eurasian superpower through the integration of Russia with the former Soviet republics in the new Eurasian Union,” Pravda reported. “Dugin is considered an ideologue of ‘racism’, he is called for killing Ukrainians. The international press calls Dugin “Putin’s Rasputin” or “Putin’s Brain”, who helped shape Putin’s view of Russia. Dugin was also the editor-in-chief of the propaganda Russian TV channel Tsargrad TV.” Aleksandr Dugin said in late April that any country providing weapons to help Ukraine in its fight against Russia should be prepared for Russia, in turn, to supply weapons to any of its aggressors. “If the United States and European countries are supplying peaceful weapons to Ukraine, why shouldn’t Russia also supply various weapons systems to its partners and proxies,” Dugin wrote at the time. This meant that Russia supplied any weapon to Cuba, Venezuela, or any other country in close proximity to the US The Russia-Ukraine war enters its six-month period this week, with Wednesday being the middle. Russia began building up troops along Ukraine’s northern and western borders in late January and began attacking Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Since then, there have been heavy casualties on both sides. This includes Ukrainian civilians, foreign fighters, Ukrainian soldiers and more than 44,000 Russians. Russia did not manage to overcome Kyiv, Lviv and Odessa, but they occupied many areas in the eastern part of Ukraine. Russia has taken over most of the Donbass Region, which includes Luhansk, Severodonetsk, Donetsk and Mariupol. They occupied the Crimean peninsula in 2014. Russia has also captured the major southern cities of Kherson and Melitopol, marching towards Odessa and the southwestern region of Transnistria near the border with Moldova. Ukraine is on particularly high alert next week as it prepares to celebrate its Independence Day. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia could do something “particularly nasty” during the freedom celebration.
