The Russian Ministry of the Interior has declared a search and capture of Daria Trepova, suspected of murdering the military blogger Vladlen Tatarski in a cafeteria in Saint Petersburg, an attack that left another 32 injured yesterday, according to official sources.
Information about the search for Trepova, 26, appeared on Monday in the Interior database.
Previously, several sources reported the alleged arrest of Trepova, a native of St. Petersburg.
However, it was later learned that the detainees were relatives of the woman, who are giving statements to the investigative bodies.
According to this Monday’s report from the Russian Ministry of Health, 10 of the 32 injured in the attack are in serious condition, and among the victims is a 14-year-old teenager.
The attack on the pro-Russian military blogger is reminiscent of the one who killed Darya Dugin, daughter of the leader of the Neo-Euroasianist Movement, Alexandr Dugin, considered close to the Kremlin, in August.
The Russian journalist died when a bomb exploded in the underbody of her vehicle as she was driving on a road on the outskirts of Moscow.
The Russian authorities accused the Ukrainian secret services of being behind the attack, a point that the kyiv government flatly denied.
Adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted last night that “spiders eat each other”, and attributed the explosion in St. Petersburg to “domestic terrorism as an instrument of political struggle” in Russia.
Meanwhile, the head of the Wagner group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, to which the place where the attack was carried out belonged, indicated that he would not accuse the “Kiev regime” of the attack on Tatarsky.
“I think it is the work of a group of radicals that is hardly related to the (Ukrainian) government,” said Prigozhin, who confirmed that he had given the premises to a patriotic group for the organization of various events.
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