EXCLUSIVE: Ilya Ponomarev, who once threatened to “finish off” Vladimir Putin from abroad, has claimed that the bomb that killed a prominent military blogger in a café in St. Petersburg is the work of Russian partisan rebels he has been cooperating with.
“This action, like many other partisan actions carried out on the territory of Russia in recent months, was carried out by the National Republican Army ,” he said of the August assassination onan anti-Kremlin television channel he runs in Kyiv, where he has been living since he was banned from entering Russia in 2019.
On Sunday, Russian authorities arrested 26-year-old Daria Trepova in connection with the bombing that killed Tatarsky at the Street Food Bar #1 Cafe, formerly owned by notorious Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. According to sources cited by Russian state media, Trepova, who was previously named on the Russian interior ministry’s wanted list for a murder investigation, is accused of bringing a statue containing an explosive device that detonated in the café.
Police officers stand guard at the scene of the cafe explosion in which Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed the day before in Saint Petersburg, Russia.Ponomarev and his colleagues pushed back on the use of the term “terrorism” to describe the café attack. While discussing the incident, Ponomarev declared that the number of Russian partisans was rapidly growing.
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