Streets named after Daria Dugina, the head of the self-proclaimed DPR Alexander Zakharchenko and Empress Catherine the Great appeared in the occupied Melitopol. This was reported by the occupying authorities of the city.
Independence Street was renamed Zakharchenko Street, Universitetskaya Street – Dugina Street, Intercultural Street was named after Catherine the Great.
Stepnaya Street was renamed the National Guard Street.
Melitopol was captured by Russian troops at the very beginning of the war, on February 25, 2022.
The car of the daughter of the philosopher-propagandist Alexander Dugin, who is called the ideologist of the “Russian world”, exploded in the Moscow region on August 21, 2022. On this day, Dugin, together with his daughter, was returning from the patriotic festival "Tradition" in the Zakharovo estate in the Moscow region. At the time of the explosion, only Daria was in the car, she died on the spot. Dugin's acquaintances said that the publicist himself was supposed to ride in the car with her, but at the last moment he changed his mind and moved to another car – "to a friend." At the same time, the car belonged to Daria, the Agency indicated.
The FSB stated that the murder was committed by the Ukrainian special services, the perpetrator was named a citizen of Ukraine Natalya Pavlovna Vovk, born in 1979. She allegedly fled after the crime in Estonia. Russian propaganda media claim that Vovk may be a member of the Azov Battalion. The Ukrainian National Guard refutes this. Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said that Ukraine had nothing to do with Dugina's death.
Zakharchenko was mortally wounded in the center of Donetsk in September 2018. Near the cafe where he was, a bomb exploded.