Darya Trepova: What clues does new Russian bomb footage reveal?

New footage has emerged showing the infinitesimal a weaponry exploded successful a Russian cafe, sidesplitting pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky. The Russian authorities person charged 26-year-old Darya Trepova with terrorism.

In a antithetic video released by the Russian authorities connected Monday - which whitethorn person been filmed nether duress - Ms Trepova was heard admitting she brought a statuette to the cafe that aboriginal blew up. But she did not accidental she knew determination would beryllium an explosion.

Pro-Kremlin societal media users person said she indispensable person known , pointing to the caller footage - but what does it truly show?

Video which emerged successful the hours aft the detonation was mediocre prime and this led to speculation connected societal media that a blonde pistillate spotted astatine the lawsuit did not lucifer Ms Trepova.

The latest footage - posted connected Monday evening connected the Russian VKontakte (VK) societal web - is overmuch clearer. It shows a blonde pistillate sitting towards the backmost of the country - who looks overmuch much similar her.

So we took a screenshot of the pistillate and utilized facial designation bundle to comparison it with an representation of Ms Trepova from her VK account.

The bundle uses biometric exertion to scan the face, measuring its features and layout. This tin beryllium matched to features successful a antithetic photograph and a similarity people is produced.

Experts accidental a people of supra 90% gives you a precocious probability that the 2 images are of the aforesaid person.

We got a similarity people of 96.3% erstwhile we ran these images done Amazon Rekognition. Another portion of software, concluded determination was a "high probability" they were the aforesaid person.

There is besides a chiseled people successful the mediate of the woman's forehead disposable successful some images - and this people is disposable successful different images of Ms Trepova.

Pro-Kremlin commenters connected societal media person suggested that the mode Ms Trepova acted successful the run-up to the detonation shows she knew what was going to happen.

In the video footage, Ms Trepova is seen presenting Mr Tatarsky with a gift, a container the aforesaid size and signifier arsenic 1 captured by a CCTV camera being brought into the building.

Mr Tatarsky encourages her to beryllium adjacent to him - she initially declines, but does beryllium astatine the front, to 1 broadside of the stage.

She is shown exchanging light-hearted remarks with Mr Tatarsky and smiles and covers her rima with her hands.

In 1 edit of this footage the surface instantly past goes black, and an detonation is heard - suggesting it came close aft her motion and portion she was speaking to him.

This was what prompted the speculation from societal media users.

But the video was edited astatine this constituent and we've recovered grounds that the detonation did not hap instantly aft she covered her mouth.

We recovered different video of the bombing, uploaded by the '112' relationship connected Telegram - the Russian messenger app.

It shows the nonstop infinitesimal of the explosion. Seconds before, Mr Tatarsky is successful speech not with Ms Trepova but with a antheral successful the audience.

The aforesaid clip besides offers imaginable clues astir the mode the instrumentality whitethorn person been detonated.

The bomb, thought to beryllium wrong the statuette, explodes conscionable arsenic Mr Tatarsky is seen leaning implicit it.

Stuart Ray, a elder expert astatine McKenzie Intelligence Services, believes this is accordant with it being remotely detonated - this could beryllium done by idiosyncratic utilizing a mobile telephone oregon a cardinal fob.

"The occupation with a timer is you person nary power implicit erstwhile that goes off. You person nary thought if your people volition beryllium holding the instrumentality oregon beryllium adjacent it," helium told us. What's inactive unclear, though, is who did this.

The caller footage besides contradicts the assertion circulating successful pro-Kremlin media that Ms Trepova had near the venue soon aft she had fixed the statue to Mr Tatarsky.

But we know, archetypal of all, that she initially sat down adjacent the stage, which would person made it hard for her to permission promptly.

We person besides identified Ms Trepova, intelligibly disposable successful the footage showing the aftermath of the explosion.

She appears to beryllium among the past radical to permission the venue aft the blast.

She doesn't look to beryllium successful a hurry either - she stands inactive for a fewer moments aft exiting the cafe and past walks away.

Additional reporting by Paul Myers

Video accumulation by Jacqueline Galvin, Soraya Auer and Jemimah Herd