A young woman detained in Russia on Monday has admitted bringing the explosive device that killed a pro-Russian military blogger in St Petersburg on Sunday. attack that Moscow attributes to the Ukrainian secret services, with the complicity of opposition supporters Alexey Navalny.
“I brought a figurine that exploded” in a cafe in St. Petersburg, about 700 kilometers northwest of Moscow, the young woman, identified as Darya Tryopova, assumed in a video published today after being arrested by elements of the Russian Ministry of the Interior. unknown whether the confession was made under duress.
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Questioned by police about who handed her the bomb, Darya Tryopova, who was presented by investigators as a Russian citizen and activist of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Fund, illegal in Russia since 2021, replied that she would explain that “later”.reports AFP.
Russian authorities had announced shortly before the arrest of a young woman suspected of the bomb attack that killed Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in St. Petersburg on Sunday, speaking at a conference of an organization called “Cyber Z Front”, favorable to the military offensive of Russian troops in Ukraine.
The explosion injured more than 32 people, eight of them seriously.
From personnes to subi des injuries de gravité variable, and include par éclats. Vladlen Tatarski passed away and 16 blessed persons. pic.twitter.com/Idu6zSczHd
– Яннис В.Зброек (@yanvonzeebroeck) April 2, 2023
Moscow blamed Ukraine for the attack and denounced that the attack had the complicity of supporters of Alexei Navalny, the main opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Navalny, who has been incarcerated for more than two years, is serving a nine-year prison sentence for fraud and is also involved in another lawsuit for political extremism.
“[O ataque] was planned by Ukraine’s secret services, which recruited agents from among those who cooperate with the so-called Navalny Anti-Corruption Fund,” Russia’s anti-terrorism committee assured today.
The spokesman for the Russian president in turn denounced “an act of terrorism”.
On Sunday, an official of the Ukrainian presidency, Mykhailo Podoliak, in a statement published on the social network Twitter, denied any Ukraine involvement in the attack, insisting that he believed it was an act of “internal terrorism” in the face of prevailing rivalries within the Russian regime.
It starts in RF… Spiders eat each other in a pot. The question of when domestic terrorism would become an instrument of internal political struggle was a matter of time, as a ripe abscess broke through. Irreversible Processes and Troubles 2.0. wait RF. While we will watch.
– Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) April 2, 2023
After the allegations against Navalny’s organization, a spokeswoman for the Ukrainian presidency, Kira Iarmych, denounced that it was a farce concocted by the Kremlin (Russian presidency).
Alexei will soon be tried for extremism, risking 35 years [de prisão]. The Kremlin thought: It’s great for the future to be able to add the ‘terrorism’ charge,” Iarmych also wrote on Twitter.
According to the AFP, Russia is “ruthlessly” repressing Putin’s critics, especially those opposed to military intervention in Ukraine.
This is reported by the Russian state news agency TASS. the arrested young woman was known to the court for having been imprisoned for ten days following a demonstration against the Russian military offensive in Ukraine.
“I will not blame the Kiev regime for these acts,” says Wagner group leader
The café hit belongs to the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who already wrote today on the Telegram social network that he entrusted the establishment to the “Cyber Z Front”.
Sunday’s attack is reminiscent of the one that killed Daria Douguina, a staunch supporter of the offensive against Ukraine and daughter of ultra-nationalist author Alexander Dougin, last August. Russia then accused Kiev, which denied any involvement.
According to AFP, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s statements about Sunday’s events seem to want to disclaim any responsibility from the Ukrainian secret services.
“I am not going to accuse the regime in Kiev for these acts. I think there is a group of radicals at work,” Yevgeny Prigozhin said on the Wagner Group channel on the Telegram platform.
On Sunday night, Prigozhin paid tribute to the “blogger” in a video apparently shot in the city of Bakhmut, the epicenter of fighting in eastern Ukraine.
Blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, was born in Donbass, a region in eastern Ukraine that is also at the center of the conflict.
Tatarsky was a real sweetheart of Z-land: “We will beat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone we need, everything will be as we want.” pic.twitter.com/1CLHOx0zVq
-Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) April 2, 2023
Tatarsky, who regularly moved to the front on the Russian side, had more than half a million followers on his Telegram channel.
According to the Russian press, Tatarsky was allegedly arrested in Ukraine in 2011, apparently for assault, without further information being forthcoming.
In 2014, after the skirmishes in eastern Ukraine by separatists led by Moscow, the “blogger” managed to escape from prison to join the fighters.
In 2019, Tatarsky left the separatist forces, according to the daily newspaper Kommersant, to distinguish himself as a “blogger” from now on.
In September 2022, at a reception at the Kremlin, Tatarsky exuberantly celebrated the unilateral annexation of four Ukrainian regions (Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporijia) with words that shocked those in attendance.
“We’re going to beat everyone, we’re going to kill everyone, we’re going to steal all the people we need, everything will be the way we want it to be,” he said to the cameras.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24 last year, plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
Source: DN
