News Desk: The daughter of a close ally to Russia's President Vladimir Putin has reportedly been killed near Moscow.
According to state media, Darya Dugina died after her car exploded in flames while she was travelling home.
It is not clear if her father, the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin who is known as “Putin's brain,” was the intended target of an attack.
Mr Dugin is a prominent ultra-nationalist ideologue who is believed to be close to the Russian president.
According to Russian media outlet 112, the pair were due to travel back from an event on Saturday evening in the same car before Mr Dugin made the decision to travel separately from his daughter at the last minute.
The philosopher's daughter, Darya Dugina, was herself a prominent journalist and commentator who supported the Russian invasion.
Earlier this year, she was sanctioned by UK authorities who accused the 30-year-old of contributing to online “disinformation” in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
