Assassin's deadly gift: Shocking moment bomb-laden statue explodes inside St Petersburg cafe killing Putin blogger - seconds after he accepted it from 'anti-war activist' who then 'fled from blast scene'
Shocking footage shows the moment a statue laden with bombs exploded inside a cafe in St Petersburg and killed one of Vladimir Putin's propagandists. Vladlen Tatarsky (pictured), whose real name is Maxim Fomin, was blown to pieces on Sunday after Daria Trepova, 26, reportedly entered the cafe in St Petersburg and handed him a small statue of himself that was filled with explosives. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11936401/Vladlen-Tatarsky-video-Moment-bomb-laden-statue-explodes-Daria-Trepova-gave-blogger.html?ito=msngallery
Video has now emerged showing Tatarsky engaging with Trepova (pictured circled), who was arrested yesterday on suspicion of his murder, and saying 'What a handsome guy, is that me?' moments before the explosion ripped through the Street Food No 1 cafe and killed him. Further footage shows Tatarsky placing the statuette back into its packaging on a small table before it exploded in his face. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11936401/Vladlen-Tatarsky-video-Moment-bomb-laden-statue-explodes-Daria-Trepova-gave-blogger.html?ito=msngallery
A third video shows the 26-year-old former art student emerging minutes later outside the cafe alongside blood-soaked victims of the explosion, before quietly leaving the scene alone. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11936401/Vladlen-Tatarsky-video-Moment-bomb-laden-statue-explodes-Daria-Trepova-gave-blogger.html?ito=msngallery
The new footage comes as the Russian propaganda machine moved to blame Trepova for planting the bomb inside the statuette. But Trepova insisted she was the victim of a 'set up' after she was arrested in a St Petersburg flat yesterday. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11936401/Vladlen-Tatarsky-video-Moment-bomb-laden-statue-explodes-Daria-Trepova-gave-blogger.html?ito=msngallery
She later appeared in a video, released by Russian authorities, with her hands chained to a radiator in a room. In the video, most likely filmed under duress, Trepova (pictured) admitted delivering the explosive-laden statue to the cafe. Trepova told the Russian investigators she would tell them who gave her the explosive-laded statuette 'later.' It is not clear why Trepova was not in a cell when being questioned. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11936401/Vladlen-Tatarsky-video-Moment-bomb-laden-statue-explodes-Daria-Trepova-gave-blogger.html?ito=msngallery
Russian authorities classified the case as an act of terrorism, giving police more power to pursue their investigation, increasing the maximum punishment and limiting the rights of suspects. According to Russian media reports, police tracked Trepova down using surveillance cameras, though she reportedly cut her long blonde hair short to change her look and rented a different apartment in an apparent attempt to escape. Pictured: Russian investigators are searching the cafe where the pro-Kremlin blogger who called for the destruction of Ukraine was 'assassinated' and 32 others were wounded in the bomb attack. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11936401/Vladlen-Tatarsky-video-Moment-bomb-laden-statue-explodes-Daria-Trepova-gave-blogger.html?ito=msngallery
Tatarsky (pictured), a staunch supporter of Putin and his invasion of Ukraine, had been speaking at a political event at the cafe when the bomb exploded next to him, killing the propagandist and injuring 32 others in what the Kremlin claimed was a 'terrorist attack'. Russia's top counterterrorism agency had earlier claimed - without providing evidence - that Trepova had carried out the attack with the help of 'Ukrainian special services' and activists who are linked to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Witnesses said that Trepova had used a false name of Nastya when she handed Tatarsky the statuette inside the cafe - and was then reluctant to get close to him when he asked her to sit next to him. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11936401/Vladlen-Tatarsky-video-Moment-bomb-laden-statue-explodes-Daria-Trepova-gave-blogger.html?ito=msngallery
One witness, Alisa Smotrova, said 'Nastya' told Tatarsky that she had made a bust of the blogger but that guards asked her to leave it at the door, suspecting it could be a bomb. But Tatarsky joked and laughed with 'Nastya' and insisted on seeing the statuette. She then went to the door, grabbed the bust and presented it to Tatarsky. In the last video to show him alive, he says enthusiastically to Trepova: 'Nastya, Nastya! Come and sit here!' She replies - possibly anxious not to be close to an explosion: 'I am too shy.' Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11936401/Vladlen-Tatarsky-video-Moment-bomb-laden-statue-explodes-Daria-Trepova-gave-blogger.html?ito=msngallery
He tells her to sit near him during a pro-war seminar but she edges away: 'Take a seat here, or there, or wherever you want…' She tells him she will sit 'in the armchair' and moves well to the side, away from Tatarsky and the statuette. He then examines the gold-coloured statuette: 'Oh wow! What a beautiful lad, is it me? Let's take it out.' He appears happy, saying: 'A golden Vladlen, perfect. Thank God, I am much better-looking…' Then he is seen in a video from 112 media - with links to law enforcement and the security services- packing the statuette back in its box. This is when the bomb suddenly explodes. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11936401/Vladlen-Tatarsky-video-Moment-bomb-laden-statue-explodes-Daria-Trepova-gave-blogger.html?ito=msngallery
Separate footage shows the scene outside the St Petersburg cafe as people bloodied from the blast emerge through the doorway. Trepova is seen fleetingly in her overcoat emerging uninjured and briefly exchanging remarks with another person before she walks away. On the pavement, those emerging from the cafe are plainly in shock. They call for ambulances and tell passersby that they suspect Tatarsky had been killed. 'I think our speaker is gone,' said one. Others say it was a 'terrorist attack… a bomb exploded.' Pictured: Trepova is escorted inside the building of Russian Investigative Committee, in Saint Petersburg. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11936401/Vladlen-Tatarsky-video-Moment-bomb-laden-statue-explodes-Daria-Trepova-gave-blogger.html?ito=msngallery
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