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The 179th day of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is marked by the assassination of the head of the Ukrainian Secret Service and the daughter of Putin’s ideologue — and accusations from both sides about the authorship of the attack.

The explosion of a car caused the death of the daughter of the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, considered the ideologue of Vladimir Putin. Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin accused “Ukrainian regime terrorists” of having “tried to kill Alexander Dugin”. The Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mikhail Podoliak, assured that “Ukraine has nothing to do with this”, because it is not “a criminal state like the Russian Federation”.

Minutes later, the Kyiv Independent reported that Oleksandr Nakonechny, head of the Ukrainian Secret Service in Kirovohrad, had been found dead.

what happened duringthe morning

• The death of the daughter of Putin’s ideologue. The Russian news agency TASS reported that Daria Dugina, 29, a journalist and political commentator, died on Saturday night after an explosion in the car he was driving in the Moscow region on his way to her house. The attack would target her father, the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, considered the ideologue of Vladimir Putin;

Daria Dugina died on the way home. Bomb planted in SUV of father, friend of Putin, will have caused explosion

• The death of the head of the Ukrainian Secret Service. Oleksandr Nakonechny had been at the head of the Secret Services in the region since January 2021. He was found dead, with a gunshot wound.
• Destroyed ammunition depot. The Russian Defense Ministry said it had destroyed an ammunition depot in Ukraine’s Odessa region that contained US-made missiles and other Western-made anti-aircraft systems.
• Russian naval base attacked with drones. For the second time in less than a month, the Russian naval base in Sevastopol was the target of a drone strike.

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