Darya Dugan's father said she would want Russians to fight. She died for Russia on the front line, he says, and that front line is here. That notion that the war is now in Russia, Andrew Roth of the Guardian, that's a shift. In Ukraine tonight, fears of retaliation in what's already been six months of high alert.
A car bomb killed Russian commentator Darya Dugina over the weekend. The bomb may have been meant for her father, the far-right, pro-Putin, pro-war philosopher Alexander Dugin. The Guardian’s Andrew Roth explains.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited and hosted by Noel King.
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