- This group ensures that the target was Alexander Dugin, the father of the victim.
- What is known about Natalia Vovk, the spy whom Moscow accuses of the attack against Daria Dugina.
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| Alexander Dugin with his daughter Daria Dugina at the Tradition festival, before the attack. / Twitter |
The Russian "partisan" group National Republican Army claims responsibility for the attack on Dugina: "Justice has been done"
The former Russian opposition deputy, Iliá Ponomarióv attributes the attack against Daria Dugina, political scientist and daughter of the leader of the neo-Eurasianist movement and Putin adviser, Alexander Dugin, to the National Republican Army (NRA), created by "Russian partisans".
"This action, like many other guerrilla actions carried out on Russian territory in recent months, is the work of the ENR," says Ponomarióv in a video broadcast on YouTube. The politician assures that the target of the attack was Dugin, however, "the Lord prepared a more terrible punishment for him", in reference to the death of the thinker's daughter, considered close to the Kremlin.
According to the politician in a broadcast on February Morning, a Russian-language opposition TV channel he launched in Kyiv earlier this year, "justice has been done."
The former Russian deputy is in contact with the ENR partisans and has been authorized to read their manifesto. "Our goal is to stop the destruction of Russia and its neighbors," says the text released by Ponomariov, who left Russia after the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
"Last night a momentous event took place near Moscow. This attack opens a new page in Russian resistance to Putinism. New, but not the last," he said. Ponomariov also announced that the NRA is prepared to carry out more attacks inside Russia against high-profile targets close to Putin. This would include officials, oligarchs, and members of Russia's security agencies.
НРА открыла второй фронт в тылу путинских фашистов. Больше ни один разжигатель, финансист или "волонтер" войны не в безопасности. Не в безопасности каратели из 64-й "гвардейской" бригады - палачи Бучи, и другие военные преступники. https://t.co/PGh29gfk8j https://t.co/cEAKQCkzOu
— Илья Пономарев / Ілля Пономарьов (@iponomarev) August 21, 2022
"We declare President Putin a usurper of power and a war criminal who amended the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between the Slavic peoples, and sent Russian soldiers to certain and senseless death," read the former Duma politician.
Who is behind the National Republican Army
The National Republican Army is a clandestine group that aims to overthrow the Russian regime and is made up of "activists, soldiers and politicians" opposed to the Russian offensive in Ukraine and opposed to Putin, explains the former Russian politician Iliá Ponomarióv.
Other targets of this movement include corrupt businessmen, the houses and properties of those who do not condemn the Kremlin and its war, and also officials of the power structures.
The group's statement described Dugina as a legitimate target and "faithful companion" of her father, who supported the genocide in Ukraine. "She was a voice calling for violence and murder" in the Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, according to The Guardian.
The ENR contradicts the Russian version
On the other hand, Russia's Federal Security Service (FBS) blamed an alleged Ukrainian spy, Natalia Vovk, for this Saturday's explosion. According to them, the 43-year-old woman was seen in numerous recordings next to her vehicle on the Russian border and near the building where the political scientist lived, but no image showed that she was the author of the crime.
However, the ENR mocked this version as "exaggerated" as the footage showed Vovk repeatedly changing the appearance and license plate of his Mini Cooper to fool the Russian guards. In addition, they think that their plan is to accuse Ukraine due to the fear they have of Russian partisans.
These said, according to the Daily Mail, in reference to that "hasty" version: "The speed of the investigation! All this was known a day after the murder. The authorities are so afraid of the partisans that they are ready for any fable ".
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The Ukrainian Presidency, for its part, previously denied any connection to the attack and did so again on Monday following the new Russian accusation on Vovk. "Russian propaganda creates fictional worlds again and has now named a Ukrainian woman and her 12-year-old daughter as responsible for attacking Dugina's car," Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhaylo Podoliak wrote on Twitter.
Dugina died last Saturday when a bomb exploded in the lower part of her vehicle when she was driving on a highway outside Moscow, coming from a festival where she had been with her father. At the moment, it is unknown who is the real perpetrator of the crime.
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