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  • The daughter of a Russian ideologue close to the Kremlin, Alexander Dugin, was killed on Saturday evening in the explosion of his car in the Moscow region, the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement on Sunday.

  • Twelve Ukrainians were injured on Saturday in a Russian bombardment in Voznesensk, a town not far from a nuclear power plant in the south of the country, said the Ukrainian authorities, who accuse Moscow of "nuclear terrorism".

  • A drone attack on Saturday targeted the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, without causing injuries, said the governor of this city of the annexed peninsula of Crimea, Mikhail Razvojayev.

    The incident "did not cause serious damage" or injuries, he said, blaming the attack on the Ukrainian forces.

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10:54 a.m .: The daughter of a Kremlin relative killed in the explosion of his car

The daughter of a Russian ideologue close to the Kremlin, Alexander Dugin, was killed on Saturday evening in the explosion of his car in the Moscow region, the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement on Sunday.

Daria Dougina, a journalist and political scientist, was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser when it exploded before catching fire, on a highway near the village of Bolchiye Viaziomy, about 40 kilometers from Moscow, according to the press release. .

Investigators say an explosive device was placed in the vehicle.

An investigation for "homicide" has been opened, adds the Committee, responsible for the main criminal investigations in the country.

According to relatives of the family, quoted by Russian press agencies, it was the ultra-nationalist intellectual and writer Alexander Dougin who was targeted by the explosion, Daria having borrowed her father's car for this trip.

Promoter of the “eurasist” doctrine, a sort of alliance between Europe and Asia under Russian leadership, Alexandre Douguine, who influences part of the French far right, has been targeted since 2014 by EU sanctions. taken in the wake of the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula by Russia.

The leader of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), self-proclaimed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Denis Pushilin on Sunday accused Ukrainian forces of being behind the assassination of Daria Dugina.

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This Sunday, while Europe has its eyes riveted on the Ukrainian power plant of Zaporozhye, the largest on the continent, and fears a major disaster;

Twelve Ukrainians were injured on Saturday in a Russian bombardment in Voznesensk, a town not far from a nuclear power plant in the south of the country.

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