“The crime was prepared and committed by Ukrainian special services,” the Russian federal security service said.
Russia accused Ukraine’s secret services and a female Ukrainian citizen on Monday of plotting the killing of Daria Dugina, daughter of an influential ally of President Vladimir Putin, in a car bombing in the Moscow suburbs.
Dugina’s father, Alexander Dugin, has been credited with being a key architect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is also believed to have been a target of Saturday’s attack.
“As a result of urgent detective measures, the federal security service has solved the murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, born in 1992,” Russia’s FSB security services said in a statement published by state-run news agencies.
“The crime was prepared and committed by Ukrainian special services,” the FSB said.
It accused an unnamed female Ukrainian citizen, born in 1979, of being involved in Dugina’s killing, and added that she fled to Estonia on Sunday.
