Is Kremlin inner circle turning on Vladimir? Fears grow in Moscow that daughter of 'Putin's Rasputin' was killed by RUSSIAN car bomb as even president's former commander says Ukraine have made him look like a 'clown'

Rogue security agents from Russia's feared FSB spy agency are feared to be behind the car bombing attack which killed the daughter of Vladimir Putin's Rasputin-esque 'guru' advisor, amid mounting suspicions the Russian president's inner circle is turning on him.

There are growing fears in Moscow that the attack on Putin loyalist Alexander Dugin's daughter, Darya Dugina, on Saturday night was conducted by Putin's own loyal agents amid rumours they want to oust the Russian leader from power.

Frustration and anger is mounting over Russia's war in Ukraine, with one of Putin's former commanders even branding the president a 'clown' who has been outplayed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Russia has furiously claimed that Dugin had received death threats from 'Ukrainian nationalists' before Dugina was ripped to pieces in an attack believed to be intended for her ultranationalist father.

But some experts have suggested that it was Putin's FSB spy agency that was behind the attack.

Historian and author Yuri Felshtinsky told the i newspaper: 'The blowing up of the car of the famous Russian fascist and ideologist of the Putin regime, Alexander Dugin, was organized, it seems, by the Russian security services.'

He added: 'On the latest Russian reports, the bomb was attached to Dugin's car inside his guarded compound. Ukraine focuses on military targets, unlike Russia, and there is no discernable gain in attacking one of Putin's media puppets or allocating scarce operatives inside the Russian Federation to such a goal that is meaningless to the liberation of Ukraine.

'The Kremlin will, however, likely exploit it to make it seem as if Ukraine is stooping to its own tactics of bombing harmless civilians in Ukraine.'

Former Russian lawmaker Ilya Ponomarev also claimed that the explosion was the work of an unknown Russian group, the National Republican Party.

There is no requirement for Ukraine to continue to exist in any post-coup peace arrangements. There is no losing a brother country if you absorb it. The generals can deal with their opposition equivalents because they were classmates. The deal can be an absorbed entity.

I don’t know why you think MTI classmates fighting on opposing sides is fraternal. The West Point class of 1861 had the same thing unfold. They knew each other well. They tried to kill each other, but when it was necessary to negotiate something, it was very much possible.

There really isn’t any other eventual outcome. Russia is convinced this is existential. It certainly is for Zelinsky’s gov’t. There can be no agreement in this situation. Russia without Putin still faces existential risk to the oil flow from the Caspian, so they have no choice.

Ukraine without Zelinsky is still Ukraine. Only Zelinsky would cease to exist. Ukraine remains, either as a satellite state or provincial segments of the Russian Federation.

BTW the first intimation of things emerged from Erdogan today. “Zelinsky is highly suspicious he is being deceived about many things by his staff.”

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