A combo image shows Natalia Vovk’s identity card.

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Russian media revealed the identity of the murdered journalist, Daria Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of Alexander Dugin, who was killed in an explosion in her car outside the Russian capital, Moscow, on Saturday evening.

The media outlets affiliated with the Russian government published a photo and the identity of the perpetrator, and said that she was called Natalia Vovk.

On Monday, Russian media published photos and an identity card of the murderer, a Ukrainian national Natalia Vovk.

On Monday, the Russian security services accused the Ukrainian "special services" of killing the daughter of the philosopher close to the Kremlin, Alexander Dugin, nicknamed "Putin's Brain", in an explosion in her car near Moscow, stressing that the perpetrator of the operation was Ukrainian, who fled the country via Estonia.

The Russian security services confirmed that the assassination of Daria Dugina was "planned and carried out by the Ukrainian special services."

Investigators work at the site of a car bomb attack that killed Daria Dugina in Moscow.. Reuters

In a statement published by Russian news agencies, she added that the perpetrator after the assassination left the country through the Pskov region to Estonia, stressing that she is a Ukrainian named Natalia Vovk.

The TASS news agency quoted the Russian Federal Security Service as saying that the perpetrator of the attack had arrived in Russia on July 23, 2022, with her young daughter.

They had attended the event that Dugina attended as a guest of honor near Moscow, last Saturday, before she was killed in a car explosion.

After Dugina's car was detonated remotely, the perpetrator and her daughter travelled through the Pskov region to Estonia, a 12-hour journey, the agency said.

The FSB added that the woman rented an apartment in Moscow in the same building in which Dugina lives, and continued: "The criminals used a Mini Cooper to monitor Daria Dugina."

Forged documents

The FSB added, according to TASS, that the woman used a variety of identity documents, as she entered a document issued by the "Donetsk People's Republic," which declared its unilateral separation from Ukraine and is backed by Russia. The woman obtained forged documents.

Russian media said that Alexander Dugin had received death threats before the explosion, which occurred on Saturday evening, and killed his daughter.

Authorities stated that the threats against Dugin and his daughter also came from "Ukrainian nationalists," which is the description given by Moscow of the Ukrainian political system.

Dugin told investigators that both he and his daughter had received threats from "Ukrainian nationalists", Russian media reported.

Prominent Russian figures demanded revenge for the explosion that killed the philosopher's daughter, and among them is the famous Russian journalist, Margarita Simonyan, who called for targeting decision-making centres in Kyiv.