Russia. Moscow accuses Kiev of organizing an attack on the arrest of a Russian military blogger, a woman

Russian authorities on Monday announced the arrest of a young woman, the main suspect in an attack yesterday that killed a prominent military blogger and an ardent supporter of an attack on Ukraine and injured several others. The suspect, 26-year-old Daria Trepova, admitted that he brought with him the explosive device that killed Vladlen Tatarsky. “I brought a figurine that explodedIn this cafe, he said in a video published on Monday after his arrest by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The object was submitteda giftto the victim, informs the source of Ria Novosti agency. A version that seems to be confirmed by a video that has since gone viral. “One person died, 25 were injured, 19 of them were hospitalized– said the governor of Saint Petersburg.

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Kiev accuses Moscow of organizing this attack with the complicity of supporters of imprisoned Russian opponent Alexei Navalny. “It turned out that the terrorist attack (…) was planned by the Ukrainian special services, which recruited agents among those collaborating with the so-called Navalny’s anti-corruption fund.“The Anti-Terrorist Committee of Russia, citing the name of the main suspect, Daria Trepova. When a policeman asked the young woman who had given her the bomb, she replied that she would explain that “later“. According to the state news agency Tass, he was known to the judicial system that he was imprisoned for ten days after demonstrations against the Russian attack.

On Sunday, Ukrainian presidency official Mykhailo Podoliak denied any involvement on Twitter, saying it was “domestic terrorismbecause of the competition within the Russian regime. After the accusations against Navalny’s organization, his spokesperson Kira Jarmic, in turn, condemned the organization of the Kremlin. “Alexey will soon be tried for extremism, he risks 35 years. And the Kremlin said to himself: for the future it’s great to be able to add “terror” to it.“, he wrote on Twitter.

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The road around the building was cordoned off on Sunday with about twenty police cars, six ambulances and fire engines, an AFP reporter said. Offensive young womangave” the blogger figurine, then “suddenly there was an explosionPresent lady Alisa Smotrova told “AFP”. “There was blood, pieces of glass…»

Another source, also cited by Ria Novosti, said that the word “it is known“bloggers and that they have crossed paths”during events“Without giving more details. Cyber ​​Front Z, a group that describes itself on social media as “Russia’s information soldierssaid he rented the cafe for the evening for an event. “We took some security measures, but unfortunately they were not enough.– said the group on Telegram. According to Fontanka, there were less than a hundred people.

Official Tribute

The Russian Foreign Ministry paid tribute to the influential blogger on Sunday evening and condemned the lack of response from Western countries. Bloggers like Vladlen Tatarskyare the defenders of the truthRussian diplomacy spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in Telegram, adding that the lack of response from Western governments.despite their concern for the well-being of journalists and a free press, says a lot“. Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the President of Ukraine, was also quick to respond, saying that “domestic terrorism (as) a tool of internal political struggle was only a matter of time“.

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Support for the Russian attack

Vladlen Tatarsky, 40 years old and born in Donbas, Ukraine, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, was a popular figure in the Russian military blogosphere, with more than half a million subscribers to his Telegram channel. Vladlen Tatarsky has developed his community especially on Telegram, posting videos analyzing the situation on the ground and advice for those mobilized since the start of the Russian military offensive in Ukraine, Tass reports. He stated that he is in favor of the Russian intervention in the Ukrainian neighbor. After the start of the war in 2014, he fought for several months as part of separatist-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine, local news outlet Fontanka reported.

In August 2022, the security services of the FSB of the Russian Federation accused their Ukrainian colleagues of killing Daria Dugina, the daughter of a well-known ideologue close to the Kremlin, who died in the explosion of her car near Moscow. Taking the contrary view of the authorities, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigogine, seemed to rule out that the murders were planned by the Ukrainian secret services. “I will not blame the Kiev regime for these actions. I think the group of radicals is at work“, he said on the Telegram channel of his press service. The previous evening, he had paid tribute to the blogger in a video that appeared to have been filmed from the city of Bakhmut, the epicenter of fighting in eastern Ukraine.

Source: Le Figaro

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