St. Petersburg bomb: hunting for who dealt with the explosives minutes before blogger died

Russian law enforcement is desperately searching for those suspected of involvement in the murder of war propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky.

The 40-year-old reporter with 600,000 followers died when a device he was given in a St. Petersburg café, hidden in a statuette of himself, exploded.

A total of 32 other people were injured in the blast, 8 of them in serious condition in hospital.

Two suspects are known in the Russian reports, one of whom is 26 years old and appears to be at large.

A video is believed to show her walking towards the café using what could have been the statuette loaded with explosives.

Her boyfriend is said to be Dmitry Rylov, in his twenties and a member of the so-called Russian Liberation Army.

He is also wanted by the secret services.

The moment woman named Maria Yarun, 40. Some reports imply that she is hospitalized in St. Petersburg after the explosion and that she was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine.

Trepova and Rylov had been arrested at anti-war rallies in Russia.

Izvestia reported that Darya had a price ticket for a flight from Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg last night, but did not appear.

The direction of the flight was not reported, but there have been indications that it is looking to succeed in Georgia via Turkey.

The images indicate that she gave the mini statue to Tatarsky and he asked her to sit next to her.

One player said the footage “shows the moment the young woman gave him the bust and started walking towards her seat. Vladlen stopped her and asked her to sit next to him.

“She said she was shy, but then she went to sit nearby, as you can tell in the photo of the moment. “

His apartment was searched and there are reports that his mother has been arrested.

Fontanka media said: “Daria, the suspect, was discovered there. Security forces pulled the girl’s mother out the front door.

“They took her to the police station. The procedural prestige of women is not clear.

A report via Telegram’s VCK-OGPU channel claimed he had personal internet exchanges with a friend in a secret internet chat.

This reported that it had arrived in St. Petersburg from Moscow late last week and intended to fly to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, via Istanbul.

A former employee of a store in St. Petersburg, she had lunch with her friend yesterday, she learned.

After the explosion, she sent a message to her friend saying, “I may have died there, I would have liked to die there, I got caught. “

Then, setting up your account for the first time in seven years.

Wagner’s chef, Yevgeny Prigozhin, admitted he owned the café. The explosion killed Tatarsky.

“I actually passed the coffee to a patriotic Cyber Front Z movement,” he said.

He continued, “They did seminars there. In fact, it is similar to the murder of Darya Dugina [daughter of a Putin ideologue who died at the age of 29 last year in a car explosion].

“I wouldn’t blame the Kiev regime for that. I think it was done by an organization of right-wing radicals [Ukrainians], which is unlikely to be connected to the government.

Police told RBC media that “the explosion occurred at a height of 60 centimeters above the ground. “

One report said security at the café prevented Trepova from bringing the statuette to the assembly because she feared it was an explosive.

A witness said: “The woman who brought the statuette sat a little farther away from me, and when she started talking about all this, she said she wasn’t let in the entrance.

“She said they said ‘there may be a bomb. ‘ She said just that. He literally asked [Tatarsky’s] permission: ‘Let me bring her anyway?’

“And Vladlen said, ‘Bring it . . . We’ll check if there’s inside. ” These are his words.

A Tatarsky video vowing the destruction of Ukraine.

“We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone,” he said. We will loot whoever we want and everything will be as we like. “

Some Russian media immediately blamed the Ukrainian government for the explosion, but whether this is the case is not yet known.

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