A Russian woman who blew up a pro-war blogger in a St Petersburg cafe has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.
Darya Trepova, 26, was convicted on Thursday of multiple charges including terrorism over the death of Vladlen Tatarsky, a pro-Russian blogger.
He was killed in April 2023 by a bomb concealed in a statuette bearing his likeness which Ms Trepova handed to him as he gave a talk at the cafe.
Ms Trepova said she had been set up by a man in Ukraine who had been sending her money and instructions online for several months, who told her the statuette contained a listening device.
“I feel great pain and shame that my gullibility and my naivety led to such catastrophic consequences,” she told the court earlier this week. “I didn’t want to hurt anyone.”
The prosecution dismissed her defence and argued that she had “acted deliberately with the aim of destabilising the Russian Federation and discrediting the special military operation”.
Dmitry Kasintsev, a friend of Ms Trepova’s husband, was sentenced to one year and nine months in prison on Thursday for letting Ms Trepova stay at his apartment on the night of the explosion. She was arrested there the next day.
Mr Tatarsky was one of a group of prominent bloggers who have built up large online audiences as cheerleaders for Russia’s war in Ukraine, while occasionally criticising its tactics.
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