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The Russian Federal Security Service (FSS) has identified a second Ukrainian suspected of complicity in the murder of Darya Dugina, daughter of Russian nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin, the Associated Press reported.

The FSS stated that it was Ukrainian citizen Bohdan Tsyganenko and that he provided the main suspect, Ukrainian Natalya Vovk, with a fake identity document and with fake license plates for her car.

The agency also said he helped make the explosive device planted under Dugina's SUV.

The US declined to comment on whether they knew who was behind Dugina's murder

Forty-four-year-old Tsyganenko arrived in Russia via Estonia on July 30 and left the country the day before the murder.

Dugina, who was a political commentator on a Russian nationalist television channel, died on the night of August 20 in her jeep, which was detonated from a distance. 

The FSS believes that the murder was "prepared and carried out by the Ukrainian special forces" and accused the Ukrainian Natalia Vovk of carrying out the attack. 

According to Russian intelligence, Vovk arrived in Russia last month with her 12-year-old daughter and rented an apartment in the building where Dugina also lived.

The FSS suggests that she and her daughter were at the festival attended by Dugina and her father before she was killed, and that she fled to Estonia after the attack.

Vovk's car entered Russia with a registration number from the so-called

Donetsk People's Republic, after which it was changed in Moscow to a Kazakh one, and finally, before entering Estonia, it already had a Ukrainian registration number. 

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Today, the FSS said that Tsyganenko supplied Vovk with the Kazakh registration number, as well as Kazakh identity documents that belonged to a real person - Yulia Zayko.

The office did not release information about how the suspect obtained the other license plates or whether they were also fake.

Kyiv categorically denies having anything to do with Dugina's murder.

Estonian authorities said they had not received any official requests or inquiries from Moscow regarding Vovk. 

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