Vladimir Putin personally approved the assassination of Vladlen Tatarsky which was an FSB operation, according to an extraordinary new claim.
He will use the blogger's death as a catalyst for new repressions, alleged Russian Telegram channel General SVR.
The authorities will seek to blame the Ukrainian special services and 26-year-old Daria Trepova who passed a bomb hidden in a statuette to the hardline war reporter and propagandist at a St Petersburg cafe.
