“Taking into account the data already obtained, the investigation believes that the crime was pre-planned and was of an ordered nature,” the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement Sunday,according to CNN.

Investigators said an explosive device was “presumably installed” in the Toyota Land Cruiser Dugina was driving when it went off on a public road around 9 p.m. local time near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy, Russian state news agency TASS reported.

The car caught fire and Dugina died at the scene. A law enforcement official told TASS the vehicle was “monitored and its movement was controlled.”

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Darya Dugina

Dugina is the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a supporter ofRussia’s war in Ukrainedescribed as “Putin’s brain” in a2014Foreign Affairsarticleabout his influential philosophy.

Dugin called the deadly car bombing “a terrorist attack” and blamed the “Nazi Ukrainian regime” for his daughter’s death in a statement, which called for Russia to defeat Ukraine in the ongoing war that began in February.

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A handout photo made available on 21 August 2022 by the Russian Investigative Committee shows investigators working at the scene of a car explosion on Mozhaisk highway near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemi in the Odintsovo urban district in Moscow region, Russia. In the evening of 20 August a Toyota Land Cruiser car blew up when the car was moving at full speed on a highway, and then burned. The driver, journalist and political scientist Darya Dugina, the daughter of the philosopher Alexander Dugin, died on the spot. According to Russian Investigative Committee, an explosive device was allegedly installed in the car.

“Our hearts yearn for more than just revenge or retribution,” Dugin said,according toThe Washington Post. “It’s too small, not the Russian style. We only need our Victory. My daughter laid her maiden life on its altar. So win, please!”

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy, said his country “certainly had nothing to do with” Dugina’s death because “we’re not a criminal state, like the Russian Federation is, and moreover not a terrorist state,” he said, according to thePost.

“Ru-propaganda lives in a fictional world,” Podolyak tweeted Monday.

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“A journalist, scientist, philosopher, war correspondent, she honestly served the people, the Fatherland, and through her actions she proved what it means to be a patriot of Russia,” Putin wrote of Dugina in his message.

The New York Timesreportsthat she was the chief editor of an English-language disinformation website and authoredThe Z Book, an upcoming account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine whose title apparently references asymbol used to show support of the war.

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A friend of Dugina told TASS that he believes Dugin was the intended target of the car bomb, according to CNN.

“It’s her father’s car,” Andrei Krasnov reportedly told TASS. “Dasha (Darya) drives another car, but she drove his car today, and Alexander went separately.” According to theTimes, Dugin and his daughter both attended a nationalist festival over the weekend.

source: people.com