Alexander Dugin, Russian philosopher and close ally of Vladimir Putin said his daughter Darya Dugina died for her country as he delivered an emotional speech at Dugina’s memorial service in Moscow on Tuesday.
“She died for our victory, our Russian victory, for the sake of the orthodoxy of our country, our state,” he said.
Dugina, editor of a Russian disinformation website, was killed by a car bomb outside Moscow on Saturday.
“From childhood, her first words, which we naturally taught her, were Russia: our state, our people, our empire,” Dugin said at his daughter’s memorial.
“She wasn’t afraid, and the last thing she said, when we talked at the Festival of Tradition, she said to me, ‘Dad, I feel like a warrior, I feel like a hero. I don’t want another destination. I want to be with my people, with my country,” Dugin said.
“In my last talk, we were standing next to each other and I told her that our history is a constant battle of light and dark. God and his adversary, and that we are now in our political situation and our war in Ukraine, but not with Ukraine. This is also part of this war: light and dark,” he added.
Dugin said he “could feel how happy she was” after the Russian Federation granted Dugina a posthumous order of courage in a decree signed by Putin on Monday.
The Russian president sent his condolences to Dugina’s family on Monday.
“A vile and cruel crime interrupted the life of Darya Dugina, a brilliant and talented person with a true Russian heart – kind, loving, sympathetic and open. Journalist, scientist, philosopher, war correspondent, she honestly served the people, the Fatherland, she proved by deeds what it means to be a patriot of Russia,” Putin said in a statement posted on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel.
Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, also extended his condolences and praised Dugina’s support for the Donbass region, saying that she “fearlessly came to the burning cities of the republic to tell the world the truth about what is happening in our country”.
Russia has blamed the Ukrainian special services for Dugina’s murder, TASS reported on Monday.
Ukraine has denied any involvement in Dugina’s murder, calling the allegations by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) fiction.
Source: CNN Brasil
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