Moscow, Aug 22 (AP) Russia's top counterintelligence agency on Monday blamed Ukrainian spy agencies have organised the killing of the daughter of a Russian nationalist ideologue.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the main KGB successor agency, said the killing of Darya Dugina has been “prepared and perpetrated by the Ukrainian special services.”

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Dugina was the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a Russian nationalist ideologist who was described by some in the West as “Putin's brain”.

It charged that the killing was perpetrated by a Ukrainian citizen, who left Russia for Estonia after the killing.

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The FSB said that the suspect, Natalya Vovk, rented an apartment in the building where Dugina lived and shadowed her. Vovk and her daughter were at a nationalist festival, which Alexander Dugin and his daughter attended just before the killing.

Ukraine has previously denied any involvement in the killing. (AP)

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