With Assassination of Dariya Dugina, Russian-Ukrainian War Enters a Chilling New Phase

The struggle could devolve into an internal Russian conflict.

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The assassination in 1881 of Tsar Alexander II. He was killed by the world’s first modern terrorist organization. Via Wikimedia Commons

The Russian-Ukrainian war has reached a chilling turning point with the release on Telegram of a statement by the “National Republican Army,” a secret Russian resistance group claiming that they are responsible for the killing of Dariya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist writer and a pro-war propagandist, who was blown up in her car Sunday outside of Moscow. 

The existence of the National Republican Army was confirmed at Kyiv by Ilya Ponomariev, who is the only Russian deputy to vote against the annexation of Crimea, and who is in contact with the group. The group also issued a manifesto in which it said it was declaring war on the Russian military machine and vowed that President Putin would be “overthrown and destroyed.”

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