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‘Statue assassin’ who killed Putin blogger with ‘TNT-laden bust’ seen smiling while ‘on the run’ after café bomb blast
SHOCKING footage shows a woman who allegedly killed a Kremlin blogger with a booby-trapped statue smiling hours before she was arrested.
Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, was killed by a bust of himself that detonated in a Russian cafe on Sunday during an appearance in St Petersburg.
Daria Trepova can be seen smiling in the footage[/caption]
She was allegedly seen on the run hours after the blast[/caption]
Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, unknowingly enabled his own assassination[/caption]
He was reportedly handed the deadly gold-coloured figurine by alleged anti-Putin bomber Darya Tryopova, 26, who was arrested today.
Russia released a supposed confession video showing the blonde, with cropped hair, admitting her role in the bomb plot.
Now, footage released by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation shows the moment Tryopova entered an apartment building with a large suitcase and shoulder bag.
She can be seen smiling as a man opens a door for her, before the video cuts to show her arrest by Russian police.
Cops said she travelled around the city by taxi for four hours before arriving at the apartment block, Russian media reports.
Local newspaper Izvestia claims that Tryopova bought a ticket from Pulkovo airport – but never arrived for her flight.
On Monday, Russia released a supposed confession video.
When asked to explain why she is being detained, Tryopova says: “I’d put it this way, for being at the assassination side of Vladlen Tatarsky.
“I brought there the statuette that exploded.”
She was then pressed to reveal who supplied her with the devastating explosive, to which she replied: “Can I tell you later?”
Tryopova is alleged to have posed as an admirer while attending the creative event, while carrying the explosive in a cardboard box.
CCTV footage captured a suspect strolling past the café clutching the package, before entering the venue owned by mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the brutal Wagner Group.
In a cruel twist of fate, eyewitnesses claim Tatarsky effectively signed his own death warrant by welcoming Tryopova and her lethal gift.
Security at the café had questioned the blonde upon her arrival and told her to leave the box at the door after they asked: “What if it’s a bomb?”
Tryopova is alleged to have described herself as an “artist” and explained she “wanted to show the heroes of Putin’s special military operation”.
It is claimed that she struck up a conversation with the popular blogger before retrieving the package from a coat cupboard.
One attendee claimed the suspect had used the fake name Nastya to get close to Tatarsky before handing him the TNT-laced statue.
Video captured the moment she handed the box to Tatarsky, who held it approvingly before placing it down.
Alisa Smotrova said the pro-Kremlin pundit had insisted on seeing the bust, despite concerns from security.
Discussing the encounter she claims to have witnessed, she told KP.ru that Tatarsky had asked his alleged killer’s name during the seminar.
Alisa explained: “She said: ‘Nastya. I want to give you a sculpture because I study at the sculpture department at the Academy of Art.
“He said: ‘Well, fetch it.’ She said: ‘They told me at the entrance, ‘What if it’s a bomb? So I left it there’.
“Well, everyone here laughed. She said: ‘Well, shall I bring it?’ He said: ‘Yes, bring it’.
“She came, brought this box and went to the stage. She gave it to him.”
The bystander claimed that Tryopova then became reluctant to engage with him and sit closer after he invited her to.
Alisa continued: “She says: ‘Oh, I’m so shy’. He said: ‘Sit closer’.
“She sat closer to the window, and said: ‘Well, I’m here on the chair’.
“They took out the sculpture, it’s a golden head in a helmet. Well, I don’t even know if it looks like Tatarsky.
“He put it down there without a second thought and then continued asking questions [to his seminar audience].
“And suddenly an explosion and smoke… We were sitting in the second part of the hall. Everyone ran.
“Those nearby, of course, were already covered in blood and ran away. The windows exploded too. We ran to the exit.”
Just three minutes after the exchange, Tatarsky was dead after the statue that contained up to 450 grams of TNT erupted.
Police told RBC media that “the explosion was at a height of 60 centimetres from the floor.”
Its capacity was 300 to 450 grams of TNT and it went off “to the right of Tatarsky.”
Tryopova is said to have fled the scene and was reportedly booked on a flight from Pulkovo Airport to Turkey hours later – but never showed up for it.
A fireball explosion tore through the café, injuring 30 and sending shards of glass blasting into the street.
Footage of the aftermath shows people attending to bleeding victims outside the façade of the collapsed café.
State media said 19 of the 30 caught in the St Petersburg blast were taken to hospital. Eight people remain in a serious condition.
Tryopova was busted at a rented flat close to the scene on Monday by the FSB and Investigative Committee, according to local media.
As she was led away in handcuffs from the residential complex, she reportedly said: “I was set up. I was just being used.”
The first picture of Tryopova after her arrest showed her with cropped blond hair, suggesting she had cut it to disguise herself.
Cops are still hunting her alleged Ukraine-born accomplice Maria Yarun, 40, although some reports say she is in hospital after the blast.
Officials are now said to be scouring through Tryopova’s conversations in a private web chat, according to Telegram channel VCK-OGPU.
The messages reportedly suggested she had come to St Petersburg from Moscow late last week and intended to fly abroad – to Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, via Istanbul.
The former shop worker had breakfast with her friend on Sunday and sent her a message following the explosion.
Tryopova wrote: “I could have died there, I’d rather have died there, I was set up.”
Darya Tryopova, 26, admitted she brought him the statue in a confession vid released by Russian authorities[/caption]
The pro-Putin blogger is said to have asked the blonde to sit closer to him at the event[/caption]
The cafe was destroyed and 30 were injured in the horror explosion on Sunday[/caption]
She is then alleged to have changed the settings on her messenger account for the first time in seven years.
Tryopova’s boyfriend Dmitry Rylov – also in his 20s and a member of the so-called Russian Liberation Army – insists she has been “set up.”
He is also wanted by the secret services and has previously been detained at anti-war protests with his girlfriend.
Rylov insisted Tryopova must have “completely misunderstood the purpose” of the statue given to Tatarsky.
He said: “I believe that my wife was set up.
“I am in full confidence that she would never be able to do something like that on her own volition.
“Yes, with Daria we really do not support the war in Ukraine, but we believe that such actions are unacceptable.
“I am 100 percent sure that she would never have agreed to such a thing if she had known.”
Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, is one of Russia’s foremost military bloggers and has over 560,000 followers on Telegram.
He provided a critical running commentary on Russia’s war in Ukraine and had once been a fighter in the battles in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Along with other Putin pundits, he criticised the Russian army for failing to fight even more brutally and ruthlessly against Ukraine.
Tryopova was arrested on Monday in wake of the deadly blast[/caption]
Security at the event had raised concerns about the suspicious package[/caption]
Moment ‘assassin’ who bombed Putin blogger with ‘TNT-laden statue’ is interrogated while chained to radiator
THE alleged assassin responsible for blowing up a Russian propagandist was captured being interrogated while chained to a radiator.
Daria Trepova, 26, has been accused of handing over the TNT-laden statue that killed Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, in St Petersburg on Sunday.
The chilling image of the alleged assassin, Daria Trepova, chained up[/caption]
Trepova was filmed allegedly admitted to her role in blowing up the Kremlin TV pundit[/caption]
A woman believed to be Trepova is seen handing over the gold statue[/caption]
The victim, Vladlen Tatarsky, was a military blogger and aggressively anti-Ukraine[/caption]
Chilling pictures have emerged of the female suspect sitting on the floor while bound to a radiator.
Russian interrogators have demanded she answer questions about her role in the violent killing.
The explosive blast on Sunday night tore right through the café where the bile-monger Tatarsky was holding an event for 100 people.
He was killed instantly and 30 others were injured before running from the blown-out café covered in blood.
The military blogger was mysteriously presented with a gold-coloured figurine of himself by a woman moments before the explosion.
CCTV caught the same woman strolling past the café with a mysterious box in hand.
She then enters the event at a venue owned by mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the brutal Wagner Group.
The woman, believed to be Daria Trepova from St Petersburg, has previously been detained for taking part in anti-war rallies.
She was arrested on Monday at a flat close to the scene.
As she was led away in handcuffs from the residential complex, she reportedly said: “I was set up. I was just being used.”
Russia has since released a supposed confession video with the now-cropped blonde admitting to the plot.
The investigators ask why she was detained and she replied: “I’d put it this way, for being at the assassination side of Vladlen Tatarsky.
“I brought there the statuette that exploded.”
Pressed to reveal who gave her the devastating explosive, she replied: “Can I tell you later?”
Cops are still hunting for her alleged Ukrainian-born accomplice Maria Yarun, 40, although some reports say she is in hospital after the blast.
A woman is seen backing away from Tatarsky after giving him the figure[/caption]
The suspect is seen carrying the large box – believed to contain the TNT-laden bomb – to the event[/caption]
The bombed-out café where Tatarsky was leading a discussion of 100 people[/caption]
Scenes from the aftermath of the explosion showed glass shattered over the street next to the collapsed façade of the café in central St Petersburg[/caption]
Trepova’s boyfriend Dmitry Rylov – also in his 20s and a member of the so-called Russian Liberation Army – said she was “set up.”
He is also wanted by the secret services and has been detained at anti-war protests with his girlfriend.
Rylov insisted Trepova must have “completely misunderstood the purpose” of the statue given to Tatarsky.
He said: “I believe that my wife was set up.
“I am in full confidence that she would never be able to do something like that on her own volition.”
He continued: “Yes, with Daria we really do not support the war in Ukraine, but we believe that such actions are unacceptable.
“I am 100 percent sure that she would never have agreed to such a thing if she had known.”
During the event, eyewitnesses report seeing the woman handing the lethal gift to Tatarsky.
She allegedly called herself an “artist” and explained she “wanted to show the heroes of Putin’s special military operation”.
She is understood to have retrieved the box from a coat cupboard before telling the pro-Putin blogger: “It’s not easy. That’s why I’ve only made your bust so far.”
Footage from the event confirms that a woman believed to be Tatarsky then holds the package approvingly and places the statue filled with around 400g of TNT next to him just seconds before it would end his life.
Trepova is said to have fled the scene and was reportedly booked on a flight from Pulkovo Airport to Turkey hours later – but never showed up for it.
Her flat was raided by cops and local media said her mother was arrested after the Russian Interior Ministry put her on the wanted list.
Officials are now said to be scouring her conversations in a private web chat, according to Telegram channel VCK-OGPU.
The messages reportedly suggested she had come to St Petersburg from Moscow late last week and intended to fly abroad – to Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, via Istanbul.
The former shop worker had breakfast with her friend on Sunday and sent her a message following the explosion.
Trepova wrote: “I could have died there, I’d rather have died there, I was set up.”
RUSSIA’S FURY
Footage of the aftermath shows glass shattered all over the street and people attending to bleeding victims outside the façade of the collapsed café.
The city of St Petersburg is said to be reeling in shock from the attack on a busy street in Russia’s second city.
State media said 19 of the 30 people caught up in the blast were taken to hospital. Eight people remain in a serious condition.
Wagner Group tyrant Yevgeny Prigozhin, was rumoured to be expected at the event, held at his café.
He said of the blast: “I have indeed passed the cafe to a patriotic movement called Cyber Front Z.
“They were doing various seminars there.”
He compared Tatarsky’s death to that of Darya Dugin, the daughter of Putin’s “spiritual mastermind” Alexander Dugin, who was killed in a deadly car bomb last year.
Several hours before the explosion, Tatarsky had praised advertising hoardings in Moscow seeking recruits for Wagner fighters.
“It’s nice to see such outdoor advertising,” he said.
Some Russian outlets immediately blamed Ukraine for the blast, but it is unclear if this was the case.
Kremlin mouthpiece and political scientist Sergei Markov said: “Almost 100 per cent this terrorist attack was organised in Kyiv… Like the terrorist attack against Darya Dugina.”
He claimed the purpose was “to intimidate everyone who supports the armed liberation of Ukraine from the neo-Nazi terrorist regime”.
Markov fumed: “Zelensky is personally responsible for this attack, being the public leader of the terrorist regime.”
Pro-Putin speaker of the Russian senate, Valentina Matviyenko, said: “Vladlen wrote the truth, he wrote simply, brightly.
“As a result he became a target for our enemies, who are afraid of the strength of our spirit, our people’s will.
“And Vladlen not only fought in the militia, collected help for our soldiers, but, most importantly, he formed the people’s understanding of the special operation.
“And I’m sure he did a lot for our future victory.”
Head of the RT propaganda machine Margarita Simonyan said: “Well, what? Will we forget? Forgive?”
Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, is one of Russia’s foremost military bloggers and has over 560,000 followers on Telegram.
He provided a critical running commentary on Russia’s war in Ukraine and was once a fighter in battles in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Along with other Putin pundits, he criticised the Russian army for failing to fight even more brutally and ruthlessly.
A makeshift memorial for Tatarsky was seen near to the destroyed café[/caption]
The damage the bomb inflicted is still highly visible[/caption]
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