Woman ‘confesses’ to killing pro-Putin blogger with bomb hidden in golden statuette
The Russian interior ministry has claimed that a woman has admitted to planting a bomb in a St Petersburg cafe that killed a pro-Putin military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky and injured 30 others.
Russian Darya Trepova, 26, was arrested for murder after the explosion in Russia’s second largest city on Sunday afternoon.
In a video released by the interior ministry, they claim that Trepova confesses that she gave Tatarsky a small statue which was packed with the explosives that killed him, but declined to say immediately who had given her the statue.
But unconfirmed Russian media reports said she had told investigators that she had been set up and had not known she was carrying a bomb.
Russia has accused Ukraine of organising the murder of the prominent war blogger, but Kyiv has not taken responsibility for the attack and instead blamed “domestic terrorism” for the murder of Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin.

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