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cnn s chief white house correspondent caikate lynn coll with us. the daughter of alexander dugina was killed. they believe someone planted explosives and ordered the attack. darya dugina died at the scene, she was a russian tv commentator and outspoken supporter of russia s actions in ukraine. dugina s father alexander owned the vehicle and might have been the intended target. he is an influential writer in russia, he advocates for an aggressive imperialist russia and many believe that his ideas have a lot of sway inside the kremlin. some russian officials are already blaming ukraine for the deadly bombing, but a top adviser to ukraine s president says that his country had nothing to do with it. fred pleitgen has the latest from the moscow. reporter: hi there, kaitlan. the read of russia today, kremlin controlled media, has come out and demanded that kyiv be hit in response to the death of darya dugina. you already just mentioned the fact that there are some in russ ....
Woke up and suddenly started reading dugan s fills if i and thought this is a great philosophy, i have to embrace this, it s just that they have like-minded perspectives on what russia should be and russia s influential on the war. he has had input on georgia, ukraine, the war and continued efforts by moscow to reconstitute the empire that it once held within europe and asia. you are already hearing nationalists say this is even more reason to redouble efforts inside ukraine, to take more territory there. what concerns are there that putin might use this, whoever is responsible, to exploit that? a fright nick prospect is that there was a guy named joseph stalin who stopped at nothing, i mean, even imprisoning and murdering his ....
It s debatable how influential he is, but a lot of his beliefs and what he has said internationally and nationally has been digested and accepted as the way forward for russia, for many russian citizens. so that is obviously a chilling event for many. what do we know about his relationship with putin, her father s relationship with putin? there s been some talk about how close they were. i know that s been called into question of just exactly what their relationship was, but he was this very influential writer, he does seem to hold a lot have a lot of influential when it comes to the thinking, he backed the invasion, he backed putting more russian forces into ukraine, of course, as this was getting started. vladimir putin already has ambition that, you know, irrespective of his relationship with dugan, he also wants the reconstitution of what was the former soviet union, the russian empire. it s not as if vladimir suddenly ....
Own people in gulags and stalin happens to be a figure who is revered, maybe not entirely by alexander dugan and his daughter darya who has now been killed, but certainly a figure who is looked upon as a power and a thing of national pride in which there was this effort and russia and the former soviet union in those days was taken seriously. it was a super power and contended with on the world stage going, you know, fist to fist with the united states, the other super power. that s where russia wants to see itself or at least vladimir putin s russia, dugan s russia, that s where this is what they want to see happen within the world, that kind of power, that type of influence in the world, a russia that stands its own and is once again resurrected as a great nation on the planet and has huge sway over everything that happens on our globe. and when it comes to this ....
Living within russia. are they happy with what they re seeing happen to their breath rent and sisters in ukraine? i mean, you know, let s face it, dugan and dugina had enemies. whether they carried this out domestically, whether it is international meddling and an attack, clearly there was an explosion of a car, everybody says that dugan was the target, the truth is father and daughter could have been the target, they could have been traveling in the same vehicle, it just so happened that darya got behind the wheel, you know. it s going to be hard to determine when the investigation comes out with something what we re looking at. the word words to take away from this are chilling and frederik pleitgen noting how tense the situation s that s what we know this morning. thank you so much for being with us. this morning also a new video that shows a violent arrest in arkansas as two ....