Darya Dugina's murder was all about the war in Ukraine

The murder of the daughter of right-wing Russian ideologue and Putin loyalist Alexander Dugin is yet another deadly example of the plotting that goes on at the centre of the murky world surrounding the Kremlin and its boss Vladimir Putin. The speculation is that whoever killed Darya Dugina had intended to assassinate her father. I don't believe it for a moment. The assassin or assassins knew precisely what they were doing. Their target was Dugina, the nationalist commentator. The fact that the FSB, the Russian internal security service, provided an almost instant step-by-step explanation of how a mother and daughter Ukrainian sabotage team driving around Moscow in a Mini Cooper carried out the killing tells you everything you need to know. The FSB script I am sure was carefully drawn up well before the assassination took place. This is how this dark underworld works. The idea was presumably to create a furore in Moscow to convince Russians living in the capital that their great country was under attack by the Nazi Ukrainians, giving Putin justification for his war in Ukraine. This is guesswork of course, but the idea of a mother and daughter whizzing around Moscow in a Mini Cooper plotting to blow up Darya Dugina's car is surely Kremlin-class fiction. This latest murder in Moscow has nothing to do with the Ukrainians but everything to with the war in Ukraine.