“According to the current state of knowledge of the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN), the person sighted in a Viennese hotel should not be this woman,” a ministry spokesman said on Wednesday followingnoon.
Nevertheless, as in other European countries, checks are carried out in Austria to determine whether the woman in question is or has been in federal territory, the representative of the Ministry of the Interior added.
Ukrainian accused
Without citing concrete evidence of direct involvement in the crime, the state-controlled media in Russia, with reference to the FSB secret service, accused the Ukrainian Natalja W. of the car bomb attack on the daughter of the Russian right-wing ideologue Alexander Dugin, Darja Dugina, outside of Moscow on Saturday evening. to have performed. According to published videos, the 43-year-old W. is said to have left Russia for Estonia on Sunday.
On Tuesday, there was finally talk in Russia of continuing W’s journey to Austria – she was said to be traveling with a child and two other women, the media wrote with reference to the propaganda Internet medium Ukraina.ru, which belongs to the state media group Rossija Segodnja.
Hotel has no comment
The news agency RIA Nowosti, which is also part of the group, named a specific hotel not far from Vienna Central Station on Tuesday followingnoon. “Some hotel staff who looked at W.’s photograph confirmed that they had seen a similar woman,” RIA Novosti’s Vienna correspondent reported. Why the news agency asked in the specific hotel of all places remained unclear. A representative of the PR agency responsible for the hotel said on Wednesday when asked by APA that they were not commenting on this speculation.
