accomplices
The FSB announced a new defendant in the case of Darya Dugina’s murder, labeling him as another member of the Ukrainian sabotage and terror group. Bogdan Petrovich Tsyganenko, born in 1978, is named as the latest participant in the operation.
The record shows Tsyganenko reached Russia in transit through Estonia on July 30, 2022, and departed the country a day before the explosion in Dugina’s car.
The FSB report adds new information about Natalya Vovk, whom investigators identify as the killer of Dugina. It states that she personally observed Dugin in the parking area reserved for festival guests.
After confirming that Daria had left the festival grounds, Vovk followed her in a Mini Cooper and activated an improvised explosive device according to the FSB.
Tsyganenko allegedly supplied Vovk with falsified license plates and documents under the name of Yulia Zaiko, a real resident of Kazakhstan. The two together installed a handmade explosive device in a rented garage in a southwestern Moscow neighborhood, as the Russian intelligence service reported.
The attached video subtitles indicate Tsyganenko entered Russia on July 30 holding a Ukrainian passport, with no doubt about the document’s authenticity.
Tsyganenko from Donetsk
Shortly after the FSB released its information, RIA Novosti published several Donetsk videos showing relatives of Tsyganenko. They said he left home with his mother in early July and had since been unreachable.
Larisa, the suspect’s aunt, recalled that after completing middle school he advanced to a military high school. He later studied at the Academy of Management in Donetsk, she said.
According to her, Tsyganenko engaged in various tasks, sometimes helping others with travel arrangements, and in recent times did not work and lived at his mother’s expense.
RIA Novosti also noted a profile on VKontakte associated with Tsyganenko that may use the alias Kasyanov, while the real name appeared on the platform My World. The agency pointed out that the My World profile was blocked for suspicious activity, and the latest VKontakte posts date back to 2017.
undermining the machine
Daria Dugina, at the age of 30, died on the evening of August 20. She was returning from the Festival of Tradition in the village of Zakharovo where she had been the guest of honor beside her father. In front of Alexander Dugin, his car exploded while moving along the Mozhaisk highway in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. Dugin had planned to travel in that same car but switched to another at the last moment.
By August 22, the FSB announced that the killer had been identified. The agency stated that the crime was planned and executed by Ukrainian special services. It named Natalya Pavlovna Vovk, born in 1979, who arrived in Russia with her daughter Sofia Mihaylovna Shaban, born in 2010, on July 23, 2022. The FSB released information indicating they rented an apartment in Moscow in the building where Dugina had lived to observe her lifestyle and orchestrate the murder.
The statement also noted that the perpetrators used a Mini Cooper to track the victim. Upon entry into Russia, refugee or military vehicle license plates from the DPR were reported as E982ХН, with Moscow plates showing Kazakhstan numbers 172AJD02 and the departure plates Ukrainian AH7771IP.
On the day of the murder, Vovk and Shaban were present at the Tradition literature and music festival where Dugina served as guest of honor. After the staged explosion of a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado, which Dugina had been using, the supposed assailants traveled from the Pskov region to Estonia. A few days later, Alexander Dugin stated that the target was his daughter rather than himself.
He asserted that the attack aimed to undermine the Russian idea across its religious and sovereign dimensions, offering a stark reminder of the costs borne by those aligned with the state’s broader vision. The incident stands as a pivotal moment, illustrating how domestic and foreign elements can converge in acts described as executions of political aims.