Russian law enforcement officials announced Monday that an explosive device containing 400 grams of TNT was used in the car bomb explosion that killed Daria Dogina, the daughter of Alexander Dogin, a prominent Russian philosopher and close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Is. .
The official Russian News Agency (Tass) quoted Russian officials as saying that 400 grams of TNT were used and that “explosives were placed under the car on the driver’s side.”
The Russian Investigative Committee said it believed that “based on the evidence already collected from the explosion, someone planned and ordered the car explosion”.
The investigation committee said in a statement: Considering the information obtained, the investigation team believes that this crime was pre-planned and organized in nature.
Around 21:00 local time, Saturday, around 9:00 p.m. local time, near Belshi village after “an explosive device, believed to have been planted in a Toyota Land Cruiser, detonated on a public road and The car caught fire, he was killed at the scene. According to this office, the reporter of the Russian Investigative Committee, according to “TASS”.
Dogina’s father, the Russian writer and theorist Alexander Dogin, is described as the “architect” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He is said to have great influence over Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Foreign Affairs magazine described him as Putin’s “brain”.
America sanctioned Dugin and his daughter. Britain also imposed sanctions on Dogina in July, saying he had “repeatedly engaged in the dissemination of false information about Ukraine and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on various online platforms”.
A friend of Andrey Krasnov, head of the Russian Horizon social movement, told TASS that he “believes that Dogina’s father was the real target of the explosion – or maybe both – because the car belongs to Alexander.”
He added: This is her father’s car, Daria has another car, but he drove her car.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova indicated that “Ukrainian state structures” were responsible for the explosion, a claim that Ukrainian officials denied.
“If Ukraine’s influence is confirmed… then we have to talk about the policy of state terrorism implemented by the Kyiv regime,” Zakharova said.
“Many facts have accumulated over the years, from political calls for violence to the leadership and involvement of Ukrainian state structures in crimes,” he added.
On the other hand, Ukraine has strongly denied any involvement in the car bombing.
“Obviously, Ukraine has nothing to do with this because we are not a criminal country like Russia, and even more so, we are not a terrorist country,” said Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president’s office.
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