Darya Dugina: Moscow murder accusation is fiction, says Ukraine

Ukrainian officials have ridiculed Russia's accusation that its special services were behind the killing of Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist, in a car-bomb attack.

"We don't work in this way," said National Security and Defence Council secretary Oleksiy Danilov.

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A memorial service for Ms Dugina, 29, took place in Moscow on Tuesday.

Ms Dugina, a commentator on a Russian nationalist TV channel, died when her car blew up on the outskirts of Moscow.

Her influential father, Alexander Dugin, may have been the intended target of the attack. His expansionist ideas of a New Russia or "Novorossiya" on Ukrainian territory are said to have influenced President Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

President Putin condemned the "vile, cruel crime" and posthumously awarded Ms Dugina the Order of Courage.

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