Russia Asks The United Nations To Condemn The Killing Of Darya Dugina, Mention Ukraine And The Azov Battalion

The scene of the car bomb explosion that killed Darya Dugina. (YouTube Euronews screenshot)

JAKARTA - The Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations (UN) Vasily Nebenzya said Tuesday, that Moscow called on the United Nations to strongly condemn the killing of Darya Dugina.

He made the remarks at a meeting of the UN Security Council on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP), which Russia had requested.

"We note that this crime is condemned by the official representatives of the US State Department. We call on the Security Council and UN leadership to strongly condemn this latest crime by the Kyiv regime", it said.

"It (Kyiv regime) is not only actively using nuclear. blackmail, shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and detaining. Basically, the European population as hostages, but also crossing the line by carrying out physical reprisals against unwanted civilians among citizens foreign", he said.

The Russian diplomat further said, "Russian authorities are investigating the incident."

"They tentatively determined that Ukrainian special services were behind this horrific crime", Nebenzya continued.

Darya Dugina. (Screenshot of Australia's ABC News YouTube Channel)

"The identity of the direct perpetrator, who is linked to the Azov nationalist battalion has been established. He managed to escape to Estonia", he said.

As previously reported, Russia's Federal Security service (FSB) accused Ukraine's secret service on Monday of being behind a car bomb attack near Moscow that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of a Russian ultra-nationalist.

Dugina, daughter of prominent ideologue Alexander Dugin, was killed late Saturday when a bomb detonated the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving, Russian investigators said.

Ukraine has denied involvement in the attack, with Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak calling the allegations "propaganda".

Dugina, a media commentator who appears regularly on state TV, is a strong supporter of Russia's actions in Ukraine, which Moscow calls a "special military operation".

Her father, Alexander Dugin, had long advocated violence to achieve the unification of the Russian-speaking and other regions of the new Russian 'Empire'.

Meanwhile, Russia's FSB security service said the attack was carried out by a Ukrainian woman born in 1979, whose name and photos, and personal information appeared on Russian news websites.

The website linked her to the Ukrainian security services and accused her of being a member of the Azov battalion, a unit of the Ukrainian army that Russia has designated a terrorist group.

According to the agency, the incident was orchestrated by the Ukrainian secret services and executed by Ukrainian national Natalia Vovk, who fled to Estonia after the crime.

In response, Azov said in a statement on messaging app Telegram the woman named by the FSB was never a member of their unit, accusing Russia of fabricating lies.