Officials: suspect in the murder of a Russian military blogger is in custody.

Police believe 26-year-old Darya Trepova was involved in the bombing that killed prominent Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky. Tatarsky, whose real name was Maksim Fomin, was speaking at an event in central St. Petersburg on Sunday evening when a bomb went off, killing him and injuring more than 30 people. Witnesses said that a young woman had given Tatarsky a figurine as a gift shortly before the blast. Trepova was detained in a St. Petersburg apartment belonging to a friend of her husband and had a plane ticket for a flight to Uzbekistan. Tatarsky joined local forces to fight Ukrainian troops after the 2014 coup in Kiev and became a prominent blogger, covering the Russia-Ukraine conflict on his Telegram channel and posting dispatches from the battlefield.

In August 2022, journalist Darya Dugina, who backed Russia’s offensive against Ukraine, was killed when a car she was driving exploded. Moscow accused Ukraine of orchestrating the attack, although Kiev denied any involvement.