Putin chief killed by car bomb days after war guru’s daughter assassinated – as video shows blast

A TOP pro-Putin official in occupied Ukraine has been killed in a car bomb just days after the daughter of the tyrant's war guru was assassinated.

The blast which killed Ivan Sushko, 40 was captured on CCTV and it comes after Alexander Dugin’s daughter died in a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow.

Sushko – who was married with a daughter - was an official in occupied Zaporizhzhia region and was killed when an explosion ripped apart his car today. 

He was reportedly taking his adopted daughter to kindergarten when he was targeted but she was left unharmed.

Sushko was head of the Mykhailivka - military-civilian administration - in the region which is home to Europe’s largest nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia. 

“An explosive device had been placed under his car seat,” said senior Russian official in the occupied region, Vladimir Rogov.

Putin loyalist Rogov said the attack was carried out by “saboteurs” in the region, and vowed to track them down. 

He claimed that Ukraine was attacking Russian-backed officials who "help improve the lives of ordinary people".

The dead man's wife Tatyana accused "Ukrainian Nazis" of carrying out the car bombing.

The head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, a close Putin ally, announced a criminal investigation into the official’s killing in the occupied region.

Sushko was appointed by the occupying forces in May and was known to have had pro-Russian sympathies before the Ukraine war.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been in the hands of Putin's forces since the early stages of the Ukraine war, with the world staring down the barrel of another radiation nightmare.

Putin's troops have told workers at Europe's biggest nuclear plant to "take holiday" - sparking fears of a nuke disaster.

Dugin narrowly dodged a car bomb blast that killed his daughter after reportedly switching cars at the last minute.

The neo-Nazi mystic who has been described as "Putin's brain", reportedly suffered a heart attack following the blast that wiped out his 30-year-old Darya Dugina.

So far it’s not clear who carried out the attack but one expert said it would have been backed by the Russian tyrant and was likely carried out by his GRU military intelligence forces.

Dugin has been seen in public for the first time since the attack, at his daughter's funeral and has called for vengeance for her death.