Russia. Daria Trepova will remain in custody until June 2 in connection with the murder of blogger Vladlen Tatarsky

On Tuesday, Russian investigators charged Daria Trepova, a 25-year-old resident of Saint Petersburg, with terrorist offenses related to the bombing of a war-promoting Ukraine blogger Vladlen Tatarski.

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The woman will be in custody until at least June 2, a court in Moscow decided on Tuesday. The Investigative Committee accused Trepova of committing a “terrorist act by an organized group”. The woman is facing a sentence of 20 years in prison.

The Russian health ministry said 42 other people were injured in the blast and 24 were still hospitalized.

Court documents show that on February 24, 2022, Trepowa was detained during a protest against war in Ukraine. Trepova’s husband said he believed Daria Trepova was framed and did not know that the statuette contained explosives.

On Sunday evening, the Russian blogger Vladlen Tatarski (Maksim Fomin), known as an ardent advocate of the war against Ukraine, was killed in a bomb attack during a meeting with an author in one of St. Petersburg’s cafes.

The Russian authorities immediately blamed the Ukrainian authorities for the attack, and influential propagandists began to demand retaliation.

An adviser to the president of Ukraine said the attack was the result of an internal conflict in Russia. In turn, Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian MP who became a critic of the Kremlin, published a statement in which a group of Russian militants called the National Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attack.

In August, Ponomaryov said the same group was responsible for the attack on Daria Dugina, the daughter of pro-Kremlin ideologue Alexander Dugin.

In connection with the assassination attempt on Tatarsky, Daria Trepova, who was supposed to participate in the Fomin author’s meeting, was arrested. It was she who was supposed to give him a statuette in which an explosive could be hidden.

Dmitry Kasintsev, an acquaintance of the 25-year-old, was also arrested in the case of the propagandist’s murder.