Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his "sincere condolences" following the death of the daughter of hardline Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin in a car bombing.
"A vile, cruel crime ended the life of Daria Dugina, a bright, talented person with a real Russian heart - kind, loving, sympathetic and open," Mr Putin said in a message to Ms Dugina's family released by the Kremlin.
He added that she "proved with her deeds what it means to be a patriot of Russia".
Russia's FSB security services said that Ukraine was behind a car bombing in the outskirts of Moscow that killed the daughter of hardline Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin.
A Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mykhaylo Podolyak, yesterday denied that the Kyiv authorities were behind the bombing.
Mr Dugin, an outspoken ultranationalist intellectual and a vocal supporter of the Kremlin's offensive in Ukraine, is thought to have been the likely target of the attack.
"The crime was prepared and committed by Ukrainian special services," the FSB said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.
It added that the perpetrator, a female Ukrainian citizen born in 1979, yesterday had fled to EU member Estonia.
The FSB in its statement identified the woman as Natalia Vovk.
According to the FSB statement, the attacker arrived in Russia in July 2022 with her underage daughter and rented an apartment in the same building where Mr Dugina lived.
The supposed attacker followed Mr Dugina in a Mini Cooper with registration plates issued in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and in the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine, the FSB added.
The FSB said the attacker was at a festival outside Moscow that Mr Dugin and his daughter had attended on Saturday.
Reports from Russian media suggested Mr Dugina had borrowed her father's car at the last minute.
Mr Dugin, 60, sometimes called "Putin's Rasputin" or "Putin's brain," is an outspoken Russian ultranationalist intellectual.
He has long advocated the unification of Russian-speaking territories in a vast new Russian empire and wholeheartedly supported Moscow's operation in Ukraine.
He was put on a Western sanctions list after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, a move he also backed.
