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Russia blames Ukrainian spy agency for death of prominent pro-invasion figure

Russia’s federal security service said Monday that Ukraine’s spy agency is responsible for Saturday’s car bomb attack that killed the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist over his role as an adviser to President Vladimir Putin.

The FSB, the successor agency of the Soviet-era KGB, said the bombing was carried out by a Ukrainian citizen named Natalia Vovk but was planned and coordinated by the Ukrainian secret service, according to TASS, the Russian state-owned news agency.

Darya Dugina, 29, died when the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving exploded after she left a literary and music festival she had attended with her father, Alexander Dugin.