and then crashed. the driver dead on the scene. that driver was darya dugina, a commentator and supporter of russia s invasion of ukraine who was sanctioned by the united states and by the uk. she was also the daughter of prominent right-wing ideolog alexander dugin. an explosive device detonated saturday night setting the vehicle on fire. russia has opened a criminal investigation the investigative committee says they believe dugina was murdered. taking into account the data obtained the investigation believes the crime was preplanned and of an ordered nature, a statement said. while forensic work continued the foreign ministry implied ukraine may be behind the attack. if the ukrainian trace is confirmed, foreign ministry spokeswoman wrote on telegram. the ukrainians deny any involvement. translator: i emphasize ukraine definitely has nothing to do with this because we are not a criminal state which the russian federation is and even more so we are not a terrorist state.
some 160 people safely evacuate from a new mexico national park after being trapped by flash floods. the roads that are washed out and we can t pass through. they don t even know about food and water for us. it is still raining. it s not letting go. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off. you are in the cnn newsroom. tonight investigators in russia say the car bomb that killed the daughter after key putin ally was preplanned. the murder investigation is now under way after darya dugin died in last night s attack on the outskirts of moscow. her father is an influential russian ultra nationalist and considered one of the architects of the ukraine invasion, often described as putin s brain. cnn s fred pleitgen is in moscow tonight. reporter: hi, phil. there is very little in the way of information coming out from that investigative committee as to where exactly things stand with that investigation. however, one of the things that we have h
russian expansionism. according to russia state media an explosive device detonated saturday night setting the vehicle on fire. russia has opened a criminal investigation. the investigative committee says they believe dugina was murdered. taking into account the data already obtained the investigation believes that the crime was preplanned and of an ordered nature, a statement said. while forensic work continues, the foreign ministry implied ukraine may be behind the attack. if the ukrainian trace is confirmed, foreign ministry s spokeswoman wrote on telegram we should talk about the policy of state terrorism implemented by the kyiv regime. the ukrainians deny any involvement. translator: i emphasize ukraine definitely has nothing to do with this because we are not a criminal state, which the russian federation is. and even more so we are not a terrorist state. but some in russia believe darya dugina wasn t the actual
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the ukrainians deny any involvement. translator: i emphasize ukraine definitely has nothing to do with this because we are not a criminal state which the russian federation is and even more so we are not a terrorist state. reporter: but some in russia believe darya dugina wasn t the actual target but rather her father. alexander dugin sanctioned by the u.s. remains highly influential in russia as he calls for the annexation of large parts of ukraine. an ultra conservative philosopher and tv personality with roots in the orthodox church he s a champion of russian expansionism, some claiming he may have influenced vladimir putin s decision to further invade ukraine n. 2014 dugin said russia must, quote, kill, kill and kill the people running ukraine and that there should be no more discussion.