A young woman has been arrested on suspicion of torturing and killing cats and dogs with her friend and then posting the footage online.

One of the photos shows a cute white kitten with a look of terror in its eyes as a knife is held up by its face.

Alina Orlova, 21, was arrested in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok where she was waiting for a connecting flight between her home city of Khabarovsk to St Petersburg in the north-western part of the country.

She and her friend Alena Savchenko, 19, who goes by the name Kristina Hemp on social media and likes to wear horror movie-style makeup and contact lenses, allegedly posted photographs and videos of themselves apparently torturing and killing cats and dogs for 'bloodlust'.

However, Orlova says the pictures are photoshopped and she's being framed.

One of the two girls is allegedly pictured holding a knife in front of this white cat

'I would like to speak in my defence... I do not know who has put this stuff to the Internet - it is not the first time somebody wants to frame me. But I did not kill anyone and do not intend to kill,' the Siberian Times reports Orlova said.

The horrific images purportedly show one dog nailed to a wall as if it had been crucified and another dog hanging by its collar and then shot with an air gun.

Other animals are seen dead in the photos - including one cat which the girls appear to cut open to pull out its internal organs.

Police became involved after animal lovers reacted with outrage to the graphic images that were posed on social media.

Alina Orlova, 21, was arrested as she was waiting for a connecting flight between her home city of Khabarovsk to St Petersburg

One of the girls is allegedly pictured in a bloody apron. Both of the accused claim they have been set up and the pictures are photoshopped

Local residents started a petition calling on the authorities to do something about the alleged teenage torturers.

Both of the accused girls are students and live in the city of Khabarovsk in south-eastern Russia's Khabarovsk Krai region.

They said they had been adopting unwanted animals which they promised to look after.

It's alleged they tortured and killed them, posting photographic evidence online.

Kristina's family are believed to have close ties to the local police force in Khabarovsk, according to local media.

Khabarovsk, the administrative centre of Khabarovsk Krai, lies just 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the Chinese border, at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers.

Another photo shows a dog being shot while hanging from the neck