A gang followed the daughter of Vladimir Putin's spiritual guru this weekend before using phones to set off 400g of TNT under the front seat - killing her on the spot, it's been claimed.
Horrifying footage showed the moment Alexander Dugin - who has been described as a Russian fascist - holds his head in his hands as he watches his daughter Darya Dugina burn alive near the village of Bolshie Vyazemy, on the outskirts of Moscow on Saturday night.
Investigators believe a gang followed her Jeep before using untraceable phones to trigger the massive amount of explosives laid under her front seat.
They said the prominent right-wing TV pundit was on her way back from the Zakharovo estate - where she and her father had been attending the Tradition family festival.
A source for the TASS news agency said that 400 grams of TNT - enough to kill her on the spot - was placed in the vehicle while in the car park of the event.
It's understood that Dugina's father may have been the intended target and that he decided to switch cars at the last minute.
Investigators suggested that Dugin and his daughter might have been targeted by Ukrainian nationalists in recent weeks, though there's currently no proof that the war-battered nation is involved in any way.
A police source told Komsomolskaya Pravda : "According to Alexander Dugin, he and his daughter have recently received a lot of threats from Ukrainian nationalists via social networks, but did not attach any importance to them."
The vehicle carrying his daughter exploded "before his eyes" after the pair "left the festival in different cars", the source added.
A video has emerged showing Putin's spiritual guru at the scene of a car bomb explosion that killed his daughter - but was "meant for him".
Alexander Dugin - who is seen as Putin’s ‘Rasputin’ - can be seen holding his head in his hands as he watches the vehicle engulfed in flames near the village of Bolshie Vyazemy, in the outskirts of Moscow, on Saturday night.
Dugin - who has also been described as a “Russian fascist”- was a guest of honour with his daughter at the Tradition family festival at the Zakharovo estate - and apparently switched cars at the last minute.
Vladimir Putin ’s closest supporters are demanding vengeance on Ukraine over the "assassination" of the daughter of the Russian leader's spiritual guru.
Evidence indicated that Alexander Dugin was the intended victim of the car bombing.
Darya Dugina, a prominent TV pundit, was blown up in the huge explosion and died at the scene.
However, her 60-year-old father was in a different vehicle and only got to the scene of the explosion a few minutes later.
An upsetting video from Baza media showed the grieving father at the scene of the explosion.
The car is seen as a fireball as emergency services sirens wail.
But her father - seen as the brains behind Putin’s interference in Ukraine from 2014 - was intended to be in the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado which was hit.
There is no direct evidence Ukraine or its agents were involved in the Moscow attack.
Yet senior pro-Putin war supporters were quick to demand an all out attack on Kyiv over the alleged assassination.
Margarita Simonyan, head of RT ‘propaganda’ network, posted on Telegram: “Decision-making centres! Decision-making centres!!
"Decision-making centres!!!”
Her call echoes a demand from hardliners loyal to Putin for him to wreak havoc with massive missile strikes on central Kyiv.
Propaganda journalist Maxim Kononenko messaged: “The address of the main building of the SBU [Ukrainian secret services]: Volodymyrska 33, Kyiv.
"I'm going to try to sleep now, and when I wake up, I hope to read on the news that it was f***ing bombed along with its basements.”
There were also warnings that other pro-Putin propagandists could be in danger.
Denis Pushilin, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic [DPR], a pro-Moscow puppet state in eastern Ukraine, posted: “The terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to eliminate Alexander Dugin blew up his daughter...in a car. Blessed memory of Daria, she is a real Russian girl.”
He directly blamed "terrorists of the Ukrainian regime”.
Dugina was described as “a young, smart, beautiful and incredibly talented and sympathetic woman”.
She was a political analyst and editor of pro-Putin journal United World International.
She was joint author of a book on Putin's war in Ukraine.
Her father is the author of an extreme rightwing view of Russia ’s role in the world which held an appeal to Putin.
