'Statue assassin' at the mercy of Putin's thugs: Russian woman who 'killed military blogger Vladen Tatarsky by giving him booby trapped sculpture' pleads her innocence as she is filmed being interrogated while chained to a radiator

Pro-Putin war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, was killed in the blast on Sunday

Daria Trepova, 26, said to have carried out attack, has been arrested today

The Russian woman arrested on suspicion of assassinating one of Vladimir Putin's propagandists in a bomb attack has today admitted she carried the statue laden with explosives into a cafe in St Petersburg - but insisted she had been 'set up'.

Daria Trepova, 26, was filmed with her hands chained to a radiator while being interrogated by Russian investigators over the assassination of Kremlin propagandist Vladen Tatarsky, 40.

In the video, where Trepova kept looking away from the camera as she spoke, the anti-war activist admitted taking the statue to Tatarsky at the Street Food No 1 cafe before he was blown to pieces in Sunday's blast.

Trepova told the Russian investigators she would tell them who gave her the explosive-laded statuette 'later'. It is not clear why Trepova was not in a cell when being questioned.

But Trepova, who had appeared in a video said to show her carrying the explosive-laden statuette into the Street Food No 1 cafe, had earlier insisted that she had been 'set up' and 'was being used' after she was arrested on suspicion of Tatarksy's murder.

Tatarsky, a staunch supporter of Putin and his invasion of Ukraine, had been speaking at a political event at the cafe when the bomb exploded next to him, killing the propagandist and injuring 32 others in what the Kremlin claimed was a 'terrorist attack'.

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