Alexander Dugin Shares Daughter Darya's Final Words To Him 

Alexander Dugin, an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, shared his daughter Darya Dugina's final words during her memorial ceremony Tuesday.

Dugina was killed in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow on Saturday. Earlier that day, she and her father had attended a music and literature festival where she was a guest of honor.

Addressing a farewell ceremony for his daughter in Moscow, Dugin said his daughter told him she felt "like a warrior" and a "hero" before she was killed in the car blast, which Moscow has claimed was organized by Ukraine.

"She had no fear," said Dugin. "The last words she said during our conversation at the Tradition festival were 'father, I feel like a warrior, I feel like a hero. I want to be one, I don't want any different fate. I want to be with my people, with my country. I want to be on the side of the forces of light. That's the most important thing,'" he said.

Dugin, who has been credited with being a key architect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, said that at his last lecture, which was attended by his daughter, he talked about how history is "a battle between the forces of light and darkness, God and his enemy."

Others who attended the service at a hall at Moscow's TV center hailed Dugina as a martyr whose death must inspire Putin's troops to keep fighting the war in Ukraine.

Russia's FSB security service has accused Ukrainian secret services of plotting Dugina's killing. Ukraine has denied any involvement in her death.

A black and white photograph of Dugina, a Russian political commentator and the chief editor of a disinformation website called United World International, hung on a black wall behind her casket, as senior politicians and friends walked past.

Dugina has spoken publicly in support of Putin's war in Ukraine, and her disinformation site has suggested Ukraine would "perish" should the country join NATO.

"If her tragic death has touched someone, she would have asked them to defend sacred (Russian) Orthodoxy, the people and the Fatherland," said Dugin. "She died for Russia, in the motherland and on the frontline which is not in Ukraine but here."

Konstantin Malofeyev, a business tycoon and a close family friend, said Russia will "definitely be victorious in this war...thanks to the untimely end of our dear beloved Dasha (Darya)."

"The people fighting against us do not understand that the Russian people is not just made up of those who are alive now. But is made up of those who lived before us and will live afterward. And we will become stronger with the blood of our martyrs," Malofeyev said.

Putin described Dugina as "a Russian patriot" in a condolence message.