The National Republican Army (NRA, Russian acronym), a group created by Russian rebels opposed to the Kremlin, claimed responsibility for the bomb attack who ended the life of well-known Russian military blogger Vladlén Tatarski on Sunday.
“This action was prepared and carried out by us autonomously. We do not maintain contact nor have we received help from any foreign establishmentlet alone the secret services,” the St. Petersburg NRA cell reported on the Rospartizan Telegram channel.
The note recalls that Tatarski, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, was a “war instigator and propagandistand a war criminal”, and the cafe where the explosion occurred is owned by the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, described “as one of the most famous Russian bandits”.
The NRA assures that the attack was not directed against civilians and that all the wounded are supporters of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine, which they justify “War Crimes of Putin’s Regime in Ukraine”.
Follow suit
Denies that Daria Trépovathe prime suspect in the attack, according to Russia’s National Counter-Terrorism Committee, has some connection to the blast.
“We ask Russian citizens to do this emulate our example and offer all kinds of resistance to the criminal Russian regime until its complete destruction. Criminals will not feel safe on Russian soil. Russia will be free!” concludes the message, also released by the Russian political exile Iliá Ponomariov, the only deputy who voted against the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea (2014).
The National Counter-Terrorism Committee blamed the attack on Ukrainian secret services, which allegedly used people close to imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni’s illegal Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) for the attack.
According to the committee, Trépova was an “active supporter” of FBK, which has been denouncing corruption in the public administration for years.
Trépova had already been sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest in February 2022 for an unauthorized action against the military campaign in Ukraine.
The Dagina case
The Investigative Committee of Russia (CIR) formally indicted on Tuesday Trépova that she committed a terrorist attack with an explosive device as part of an organized group, which could cost her up to 20 years in prison, after which justice arrested her for a two-month term.
Monday Trépova, 26, he acknowledged having handed over the statuette which caused the explosion in a cafe in St. Petersburg, according to the video of the interrogation released by the Interior Ministry.
Allegedly, Trépova gave the figure to Tatarski, 40, with an explosive inside that was allegedly triggered by a remote control.
The murder of the blogger remember the bomb attack that killed Daria Dugin in August 2022daughter of the ultranationalist intellectual Alexandr Duguin, considered close to the Kremlin.
The National Republican Army He also claimed responsibility for the said attackalthough Russian authorities have accused Ukrainian intelligence services of being behind it, which Kiev has strongly denied.
Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded Tatarsky the Order of Valor on Monday, just as he did Dugin at the time.
Tatarski, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine and He fought in 2014 on the pro-Russian side against the Kiev army.
The blogger, who had more than 560,000 subscribers on his Telegram channel, became famous in September 2022 when, after attending Putin’s speech in the Kremlin, he assured: “We will defeat them all, we will kill them all, we will rob them all who we want “.
Source: Clarin
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