Moscow, Russia- Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has said that the UN is calling for an investigation to establish the facts behind Darya Dugina’s death.
The terrorist car bombing that killed Darya on Saturday has seen Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, saying that it shows the true nature of the Ukrainian State and cited that the UN Security Council will be briefed about it in an upcoming meeting.
“We have asked for an urgent meeting tomorrow on Zaporizhzhia, where Ukrainian provocations continue. The connection between their saboteurs and this murder is obvious, and has already been revealed by the FSB,” said Nebenzia.
The bomb that killed the 29-year-old journalist is believed to have been targeted at her father and philosopher Aleksandr Dugin.
Prior to the attack, Darya attended a festival outside Moscow with her father, as she was killed in an explosion of a bomb planted in her father’s Toyota SUV.
“As you know, in a terrorist act by the Nazi Ukrainian regime, my daughter Darya was savagely murdered before my eyes on August 20, while returning from the Tradition festival near Moscow. Darya was a beautiful Orthodox girl, a patriot, a military correspondent, a TV expert and a philosopher. Her speeches and reporting have always been profound, grounded and restrained. She never called for violence or war. She was a rising star at the beginning of her journey. The enemies of Russia killed here dishonourably, on the sly,” said Darya.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) has identified the suspect as Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk, 43. The FSB released a video on Monday showing Vovk entering the country in July with Donetsk People’s Republic license plates and in the company of her teenage daughter. Vovk was also registered as renting an apartment in the same Moscow building as Dugina, and hastily leaving the country on Sunday, crossing into Estonia with Ukrainian license plates and her hair a different colour. However, Ukraine has denied any official involvement with the bombing.
Last month, the British government imposed sanctions on Darya citing her as a frequent and high-profile contributor of disinformation in relation to Ukraine and Russia’s military operations in Ukraine on various online platforms. Prior to that, the United States had imposed sanctions on her in March, describing her as the chief editor of an English-language disinformation website.
Darya was not well known in Russia beyond ultranationalist and imperialist circles, but the widely read bloggers and commentators who knew her described her death as a tragedy and called for revenge.
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