A video released by the Kremlin and published by the BBC appears to show a woman carrying a box walking towards the “Street Bar” cafe in St Petersburg, Russia, where pro-Putin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in a blast.
The CCTV footage the blonde-haired woman, wearing a long brown coat and heeled ankle boots, enter through the glass doors at the front of the establishment.
The 40-year-old blogger died while leading a discussion at the cafe on the banks of the Neva River. Russian reports claimed the bomb was concealed in a statuette of the blogger given to him as a gift just before the explosion.
CCTV footage has been released which appears to show a woman carrying a box walking towards the ‘Street Bar’ cafe in Russia where the blogger was killed.
The woman, identified by Russian authorities as Darya Trepova, 26, has been arrested, the BBC reported.
No one has publicly claimed responsibility for the attack, but Russia‘s National Anti-terrorism Committee claimed on Monday that Ukrainian intelligence had been aided in the killing of the war by “agents” from a banned campaign group.
The Russian Interior Ministry said that Trepova had been previously detained for taking part in anti-war rallies.
Watch the video below:
BBC video showing a woman that some believe was #DaryaTrepova arriving at the cafe with a package.
Contains before and after scenes on the location where the explosion occurred that killed #Tatarsky. pic.twitter.com/M425vlQH33
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