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Russia's Interior Ministry is searching for a woman named Darya Trepova. Russian media consider her the prime suspect in the murder of prominent nationalist blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in a St. Petersburg café. Police placed her on their wanted list, Interfax reported.

Russia's Investigative Committee said Monday that Darya Trepova, a suspect in the murder of war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky with a bomb in St. Petersburg on Sunday, had been detained.

The well-known military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed on Sunday in a cafe in St. Petersburg in another attack against the most warmongering sector of 'Putinism' in broad daylight in a large Russian city. 32 people were injured, 10 of them are in serious condition and among the injured is a 14-year-old girl. As in the case of Daria Dugina in August, Kiev avoided claiming responsibility for the attack.

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  • Writing: XAVIER COLÁS Moscow

Who is Natalia Vovk, the Ukrainian woman whom Russia accuses of the death of Daria Dugina

The explosion occurred a few minutes after an attendee, who introduced herself as Nastya, gave Tatarsky a gift: a plaster statue. Investigators believe the figurine could contain a radio-controlled improvised explosive device with a capacity of about 200 grams of explosive. The girl left the café before the explosion.

Initially, information appeared in the media that the suspect in the explosion was a Ukrainian from the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, Maria Yarun. Later, law enforcement sources reported that a St. Petersburg resident, Daria Trepova, born in 1997, as well as her husband, Dimitry Rylov, were wanted in the case of Tatarsky's murder. According to human rights website OVD-Info, both were arrested by police at an anti-war demonstration on 24 February 2022.

According to several local media, the woman's mother and sister have been interrogated, and searches have been carried out in the area of Pushkin, a city near St. Petersburg, located 24 kilometers to the south. According to Astra, Trepova's mother testified that she saw her daughter on Sunday afternoon shortly before the explosion, but did not notice anything strange about her behavior. Various media have broadcast videos of Trepova arriving at the bar with the statuette and placing it next to the murdered propagandist. The explosion took place in a café that once belonged to Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner mercenary army. The place is a common meeting point for Russian nationalists, who under the name of CiberFrontZ cheer the invasion of Ukraine.

Daria Trepova, writes the Russian media Baza, is known among feminists and political activists in St. Petersburg as Dasha Tykovka. Some time ago he left St. Petersburg for Moscow, but on the eve of the explosion he returned to the city. According to Fontanka, Russian agents conducted searches in the apartment of a St. Petersburg resident suspected of involvement in Tatarsky's murder.

Tatarsky, who had 560,000 followers on Telegram, was one of Russia's most prominent war-themed bloggers. He had cheered the massacres of Ukrainians with racist insults and on many occasions reported from the front, where he fought after the outbreak of war in 2014. Born in eastern Ukraine, he had a Russian passport and had been in jail. He was part of the group of war veterans and correspondents who have championed Russia's campaign in Ukraine, and was invited to an event in the Kremlin along with leading members of the government's warmongering chorus. Some of them, including Tatarsky himself, had criticized the Russian military leadership for the setbacks on the Ukrainian front, but above all they always showed their contempt for the Ukrainians. "We're going to defeat everybody, we're going to kill everybody, we're going to steal everyone who is needed. Everything will be to our liking," Tatarsky said in a video recorded from his mobile phone as he left the historic event, presided over by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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