BREAKING: Russian officials say they have arrested 26-year-old sculptor Daria Trepova following the death of pro-war Russian blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in an explosion at a café in St Petersburg
Tatarsky was killed as he led a discussion at a cafe on the banks of the Neva River in the historic heart of St Petersburg.
In remarks recorded on video, a witness said that a woman who identified herself as Nastya asked questions and exchanged remarks with Tatarsky at the event.The witness, Alisa Smotrova, quoted Nastya as saying 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.
Nastya and Tatarsky joked and laughed. She then went to the door, grabbed the bust and presented it to Tatarsky. He reportedly put the bust on a nearby table, and the explosion followed. Smotrova described people running in panic, some hurt by shattered glass and covered in blood. A St Petersburg website said the cafe had at one time belonged to Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group - the private army that is fighting for Russia in Ukraine.Police officers stand guard at the scene of the cafe explosion in which Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed
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