Chilling video shows the moment a woman suspected of assassinating one of Vladimir Putin’s propagandists carried a statue reportedly containing deadly explosives into a cafe just minutes before it exploded and killed the war enthusiast.
Vladen Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, was blown to pieces yesterday after a woman, said to be Daria Trepova, 26, entered the cafe in St Petersburg and handed him a small statue of himself that was reportedly laden with explosives.
Tatarsky, 40, a staunch supporter of Putin and his invasion of Ukraine, had been speaking at a political event at the Street Food No 1 cafe when the bomb exploded next to him, killing the propagandist and injuring 32 others.
Now, video appears to show Trepova, a St Petersburg resident who had been previously detained for taking part in anti-war rallies, walking to the cafe carrying a box containing what may have been statuette containing 450g of TNT.
In response, the Russian Interior Ministry today put Trepova on…
