After the death of ‘war propagandist’ Darya Dugina in a car bomb, unrest is growing in Moscow – the war against Ukraine now also has direct consequences for Russia. Russian state propaganda is already trying to attribute the attack to “Ukrainian terrorists”. The attack should have hit Dugina’s father Alexander — the right-wing national ideologue oftentimes served as Putin’s idea generator.
Like her father, Dugina was considered an advocate of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The vehicle with the 29-year-old at the wheel caught fire near Moscow on Saturday evening after a car bomb exploded. For example, she has been handed down the verdict that Ukrainians are “cruel”.
Apparently her attitude is no accident. Her father, also known as “Rasputin”, is on the US sanctions list – he is also seen there as the idea behind the invasion of the neighboring country at the behest of Russian President Vladimir Putin. As journalists in Kiev reported on Sunday after the explosion, the 60-year-old openly called for the killing of Ukrainians.
Vader was probably the main target of the bomb
In any case, many are convinced that Alexander Dugin himself was the target of the attack. Russian media reported that he attended the patriotic Tradition festival on Saturday with his daughter. Dugin was announced as a speaker there. His daughter, who was with him, parked the car in a special parking lot for guests. The bomb could have been placed there.
Apparently there was no video surveillance. According to the media, father and daughter then wanted to leave together. But Dugin stayed. Videos of the burning car wrecks made the rounds on social media – and of a shocked Dugin, who rushed to the crime scene on Saturday and, as can be seen in photos, threw his hands over his head. The propagandists called for revenge.
Propagandists miss military answers
After the shelling of the border regions of Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk, Russia has repeatedly threatened counter-attacks, allegedly from the Ukrainian side. But after nearly six months of war, there are many questions for Moscow’s military leadership. Political commentators are increasingly surprised that the Kremlin has not reacted more sharply, especially after the most recent explosions in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Apparently already for attack plans
The detonation of a car bomb near Moscow brings the Russian war very close again for the capitals, which are largely ignoring the bloodshed in the neighboring country. TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, who was sanctioned for his warmongering, is said to have narrowly escaped an attack in April. Kremlin boss Putin said personally: “We know the names of the trustees of the Western secret services, a CIA group that mainly works with Ukraine’s security agencies and apparently gives such advice,” the president said.
It is clear that the explosion does not change the situation in Russia. But observers said on Sunday that the shockwave from the car bomb is at least shaking the comfortable world of propagandists, who previously thought they were safe. The murder of a public supporter of the war against Ukraine on Russian territory near Moscow is considered unprecedented.
“Saboteurs” through escape routes?
The Russian domestic secret service FSB reports almost daily arrests of suspected terrorists who allegedly planned attacks on behalf of Ukraine. Time and again, the officers also published unverifiable photos and videos of homemade explosives and confessions of the suspects.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians from the war zone now live in Russia – often with no alternative. The suspicion that ‘saboteurs’, as Moscow calls them, also enter via the escape routes is ubiquitous. Only last week, according to a statement, the FSB arrested several “saboteurs” after the massive explosion in Crimea.
Ukraine denies allegations
However, the attacks have not been confirmed by the Ukrainian side. They also want nothing to do with the attack on Dugina there, as presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak emphasized. On television, he said that this incident could also help Russia to justify its mobilization for the war.
Source: Krone
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