The Kremlin is convinced that Ukraine is behind the attack that killed Darya Dugin, the daughter of Alexander Dugin, considered the ideologue of Vladimir Putin. The main Russian security agency identified the second Ukrainian citizen as an alleged accomplice in the attack, which, by all indications, was directed against Dugin himself.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB, identified Bogdan Tsyganenko as the person who could have provided a fake identity document and license plates to Natalya Vovk, who was supposed to have committed the crime, according to Russian sources, which Ukraine vehemently denies. According to the ABC network, Tsyganenko would also help to plant an explosive device in the car in which the ultranationalist Alexander Dugin was supposed to travel.

Tsyganenko, 44, was supposed to arrive in Russia via Estonia on July 30 and leave the country just a day before the murder, on August 20. The documentation he provided was in Kazakh and matched a person named Yuliya Zaiko.

Dugina, a commentator for a Russian nationalist TV channel, died when an explosive device planted remotely on his SUV exploded as he was driving outside of Moscow, destroying the car. He lost his life on the spot.

The FSB claims that the murder of Dugina “was prepared and carried out by the Ukrainian special services.” He accused Natalya Vovk of having committed the murder and fled to Estonia, a country that has not yet received any request from Moscow.

Vovk, according to the FSB, came to Russia in July with her 12-year-old daughter and rented an apartment in the building where Dugina lived. Vovk and his daughter were supposed to be at the nationalist festival, which Dugin and her daughter attended shortly before the murder.

At her funeral, Alexander Dugin said, according to Reuters: “She lived for victory, for our Russian victory … If anyone was touched by her tragic death, then she should serve to protect bloody Russian Orthodoxy, the people and the Motherland.”

Alexander Dugin and his daughter Daria were ardent supporters of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv categorically denies any involvement in Dugina’s death. Who dealt this blow to the Kremlin’s encirclement? The puzzle remains.