“The contractor is a citizen of Ukraine Vovk Natalya Pavlovna, born in 1979, who arrived in Russia on July 23, 2022, together with her daughter Shaban Sofia Mikhailovna, born in 2010,” the agency said in a statement.

It is noted that the woman rented an apartment in Moscow in the house where the deceased lived in order to follow the journalist.

The FSB clarified that a MINI Cooper was used for surveillance, when entering Russia it had DPR numbers, in Moscow - Kazakh numbers, and when leaving, already Ukrainian ones.

Earlier it was reported that the FSB, as a result of a complex of urgent operational-search measures, uncovered the murder of Russian journalist Daria Dugina.

The car driven by Dugina was blown up on the evening of August 20 in the Moscow region.