The car bomb assassination of Darya Dugina occurred after a pro-Putin public event, a cultural festival she had attended with her father, reports suggest Alexander Dugin apparently switched cars at the last minute with his daughter before the explosion.

Alexander Dugin is widely seen as the brain behind Putin’s interference in Ukraine since 2014. Dugina a political analyst and editor of pro-Putin journal United World International and a joint author of a book on Putin's war in Ukraine is perceived as the mastermind of the Ukrainian invasion.

Putin's closest supporters have demanded vengeance on Ukraine over the 'assassination' of Darya Dugina, who died in place of her father.

Reports say Andrey Krasnov, the head of the Russian Horizon social movement and a close friend of the dead woman, acknowledged knowing Darya personally and revealing that both father and daughter swapped cars on that faithful day.

Andery said Alexander or probably both of them, father and daughter were the targets. 

Journalist Maxim Kononenko in his message urged Putin to wreak havoc with massive missile strikes on central Kyiv by sending Putin the address of the main building of the SBU Ukrainian secret services.

While Denis Pushilin, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, a pro-Moscow state in eastern Ukraine, posited that other pro-Putin propagandists could be in danger.

News of Alexander Dugin's attempted assassination comes after a kamikaze drone strike hit Russia's Navy headquarters in Crimea and sparked a huge explosion on Saturday, in another suspected Ukrainian raid.

However there is no direct evidence Ukraine or its agents were involved in the Moscow attack, but senior pro-Putin war supporters were quick to demand an all-out attack on Kyiv over the alleged assassination.

This will no doubt cause some halt in the recent successes achieved between the Ukrainian and Russian governments brokered between the Turkish President and the United Nation’s secretary general.