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The Death of Aleksandr Dugin’s Daughter Isn’t Good News for Ukraine

An explosion killed the daughter of Putin’s leading Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin this weekend. Just as she started her vehicle, it exploded. Daria Dugina was on Saturday night at a meeting of conservative personalities on the outskirts of Moscow. Her father was also at the event, so there is speculation that it was an attack that was actually aimed at Aleksandr Dugin.

So far there is no further information about what happened. The only thing that is known is that Daria Dugina died because a device exploded inside the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving. According to Russian authorities, the device was planted with the purpose of exploding the vehicle when it was started.

Speculation immediately began. The Russian government has not yet pointed the finger, but already Putin’s propaganda apparatus is doing so: it was the Ukrainians. Consequently, they are calling for an escalation of the invasion. For its part, Ukraine flatly denied that it was behind the attack, because “we are not a criminal state, as Russia is,” said an advisor to President Zelensky.

The reality is that the assassination of Aleksandr Dugin’s daughter is looming an inevitable escalation. In the framework of the invasion, this is the most tragic blow to the Russian regime. Aleksandr Dugin is not simply an influential philosopher. He is probably the mind behind the power. Putin’s great ideologue and the intellectual architect of the invasion of Ukraine.

We do not know if Ukraine was behind the bombing, which was perhaps designed to kill the father and not the daughter. But what is certain is that the Russian regime will not stand idly by, so the death of Daria Dugina is not good news for Ukraine. There will be a backlash, probably lethal, and Aleksandr Dugin may now be pressuring Putin to execute a lethal onslaught against the Ukrainians.

Daria’s death is a tragedy, but we also cannot forget that she and her father have been the main promoters of the invasion and have been calling for the assassination of Ukrainian politicians for years. In the end, all sides are suffering the consequences of a war that should never have started. There are no winners, only tragedy. Let us hope that even this misfortune will lead the Russians to consider that the cost of continuing is too high.


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Orlando Avendaño is the co-editor-in-chief of El American. He is a Venezuelan journalist and has studies in the History of Venezuela. He is the author of the book Days of submission // Orlando Avendaño es el co-editor en Jefe de El American. Es periodista venezolano y cuenta con estudios en Historia de Venezuela. Es autor del libro Días de sumisión.

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