Explosion in a St Petersburg café

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Trepova's partner, Dmitry Rylov, told the Russian news site SVTV News that while his wife was against the war in Ukraine, "she would never kill" and "believes his wife was framed".
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has released a video of Daria Trepova which appears to show a confession.
The circumstances under which the filming was done is not known.

Around 30 people were also wounded in the explosion, with 10 of them said to be in a critical condition, according to the authorities.

https://news.sky.com/story/woman-arreste...g-12848926

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Russian news reports said the bomb was hidden in a bust of the blogger that the suspect had given to him as a gift just before the blast.

I don't know why but reminded me of this much older covert incident...

The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945.

Cold war Russian 'gifts' can be dangerous & deadly.


Reuters update:

The number of people wounded in the bomb blast that killed a prominent Russian military blogger in St Petersburg on Sunday has risen to 32 from 25 reported earlier, Russia's RIA sate news agency reported.