KIEV: Russia has blamed Ukraine for the killing of political scientist Darya Dugina, the daughter of a major ally of President Vladimir Putin, the Russian intelligence agency FSB said in a  report. "The crime was prepared and committed by the Ukrainian secret services," the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday, as per reports by the Interfax agency.

The Federal Security Service's claim could not be verified, and others have said a Russian partisan movement was behind the killing, the reports add.

Kiev had previously denied any involvement in the weekend murder of Dugina.

Dugina was the daughter of novelist and philosopher Alexander Dugin, a close ally of Vladimir Putin who is credited with providing the government with the inspiration for its invasion on Ukraine.

The journalist and right-wing political activist, age 29, was widely regarded as an ardent supporter of Russia's conflict with Ukraine. On August 20, she perished in a car bombing.

Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian lawmaker who is currently residing in Ukraine, claimed that the attack was justified in a video that was posted on YouTube late Sunday "opens a new chapter in Russian opposition to Putinism. A fresh page, but not the final one ".

Ponomarev said that the attack was carried out by the National Republican Army movement.

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