Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has identified another member of the “Ukrainian sabotage terrorist group” who allegedly planned the murder of Daria Dugina together with another Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk, state news agency TASS reports, citing the FSB Public Relations Centre.
According to the FSB, Bohdan Tsyganenko, born in 1978, provided Vovk with number plates and documents in the name of Kazakh national Yulia Zayko. The FSB thinks that he helped Vovk create an explosive device in a garage in southwestern Moscow.
The security service claims that Tsyganenko arrived in Russia through Estonia on 30 July 2022. He left Russia the day before the murder.
The FSB also published a video showing Tsyganenko’s activity leading up to the murder.
“We analysed surveillance footage and found evidence confirming that the perpetrator of the crime, Ukrainian national Natalya Vovk, personally observed Dugina at a parking lot for the guests of the Tradition festival,” the FSB noted. Dugina’s car exploded while she was on her way back from this festival.
Daria Dugina, the daughter of Russian ultraconservative philosopher Alexander Dugin, was killed in a car explosion on 20 August near the village of Bolshye Vyazemy in the Moscow region. The 29-year-old woman was behind the wheel of the car.
Several days later, the FSB accused the Ukrainian security services of planning the murder.
According to the FSB, Ukrainian citizen Natalya Vovk, who arrived in Russia with her daughter on 23 July, rented a flat in the same apartment building as Dugina to plan out the murder. She also rented a Mini Cooper car, using the number plates of the self-proclaimed Donetsk “people’s republic” (“DPR”) Е982ХН DPR to enter Russia. In Moscow, she used Kazakh number plates 172AJD02, and Ukrainian AH7771IP plates when leaving Russia, the FSB stated.
Ukrainian officials stated that the country has nothing to do with Dugina’s murder.
