Footage shows Vladlen Tatarsky affectionately beckoning his accused assassin to sit near him moments before the statuette she handed him blew him to death.
show the suspect, Daria Trepova, initially trying to back out of the room after handing a box containing a small statuette to Maxim Fomim, a military propagandist better known as Vladlen Tatarsky.
She compromises by agreeing to stay for the political discussion, but in a different chair several feet to the left of Tatarsky, who had been one of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for Russia’s war on Ukraine. Unaware of the horror about to unfold, the blogger is seen affectionately opening the box and admiring the bust he was handling, joking: “Oh, what a handsome guy! Is that me?”
The blogger was putting the bust back in the box when it exploded, killing him and injuring dozens of others.
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