Former Duma member, anti-Putin Russian partisans behind Dugin attack

(ANSA) – ROME, AUG 21 – Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the Russian Duma who was expelled for anti-Kremlin activities, said that there would be the hand of a group of Russian partisans behind a car bomb that killed Darya Dugina , the daughter of one of the president’s close political allies. The Guardian reports it. The dissident, speaking from Kiev where he resides, claimed that the attack was the work of “the National Republican Army (NRA)”.

“Last night an important event took place near Moscow. This attack opens a new page in the Russian resistance to Putinism. New, but not the last,” said the former parliamentarian, who read what he said during a television program. claimed to be a manifesto of the partisan group in question. A document in which he defines himself as “Putin a usurper of power and a war criminal who amended the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between the Slavic peoples and sent Russian soldiers to a certain and senseless death. And who will be deposed”. In the document, Dugin’s daughter is described as “a legitimate target because she is a faithful companion of her father, who supported the genocide in Ukraine”. According to Ponomarev, the NRA is prepared to conduct further similar attacks against high-profile targets linked to the Kremlin, including officials, oligarchs and members of security agencies.

The former deputy, the only one to vote against the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and banned from Moscow, became a citizen of Ukraine in 2019. From Kiev, after the invasion of Ukraine, he launched the February Morning television program in the language Russian to voice the opposition. (HANDLE).

Source: Ansa

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