Hundreds of people attended yesterday’s funeral in Moscow for Daria Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist who was killed in an operation Russia has blamed on Ukrainian intelligence. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed that his country would “ruthlessly” deal with those responsible for the car bombing that killed Alexander Dugin’s daughter. “We hope that the investigation will be completed soon,” Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow. According to the results of this investigation, there can be no mercy for those who organized, ordered and carried out the explosion. It is likely that Alexander Dugin, the main backer of the Russian military operation in Ukraine and who claims to have a close relationship with President Vladimir Putin, was the target of the bombing that killed his 29-year-old daughter. Ukraine denies any involvement in the murder. Mourners, many carrying roses, say goodbye to Daria, whose open coffin has been placed in the foyer of the Ostankino Tower in Moscow, surmounted by a black-and-white photograph of her. Dugin and his wife, dressed in black, sat by the coffin. “She died for Russia, the nation and people, at the front,” Alexander Dugin said at the beginning of the funeral. The front is here. Darya Dugina died on Saturday when a bomb exploded in her car while driving on a highway on the outskirts of Moscow. Putin has never expressed public support for Dugin, but the Kremlin on Monday sent Dugin’s family a letter of condolence in which the Russian leader condemned the “heinous crime” that claimed Dugin’s life. Born in 1992, Daria followed in the footsteps of her father, Alexander, and in recent years her name has surfaced in the Russian media. Borrowing the name of Daria Platonova, she collaborated with the Rossiya Segodnya network and the conservative Tsargrad channel in particular.