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Prominent Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in a bomb blast in a St. Petersburg cafe on Sunday in what appears to be the second killing on
Prominent Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in a bomb blast in a St. Petersburg cafe on Sunday in what appears to be the second killing on Russian soil of a figure closely linked to the war in Ukraine.
The State Investigative Committee of Russia reported that 19 more people were injured as a result of the explosion, and opened a criminal case on the murder.
Tatarsky, whose real name is Maksim Fomin, had over 560,000 followers on Telegram and was one of the most prominent military bloggers who has defended Russia’s military actions in Ukraine, often criticizing the failures of the army dome.
“We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone we need. Everything will be the way we like it,” he said in a video message last September at a ceremony in the Kremlin at which the President Vladimir Putin declared four occupied regions of Ukraine to be Russian territory.a measure rejected as illegal by most countries.
There was no indication of who was behind the explosion.
The TASS news agency, citing an unnamed source, said the improvised explosive device was hidden in a miniature figurine given to Tatarsky when he was addressing a group of people in a cafe.
The Mash Telegram channel, which is associated with the Russian security forces, published a video in which Tatarsky, microphone in hand, receives a statuette of a soldier in a helmet. The explosion happened a few minutes later.
Tatarsky’s death followed death Daria Dugina, daughter of a prominent ultranationalistin August last year as a result of a car bomb explosion near Moscow.
The FSB of Russia blamed the Ukrainian special services for this. attack that Putin called “evil”. Ukraine denied any involvement.
Russian war bloggers, a group of war correspondents and freelance commentators with military experience, have been given broad powers by the Kremlin to publish scathing views of the 14-month war. Putin even appointed one of them to his human rights council last year.
“He was in the hottest spots of the special operation and always came out alive. But the war found him in a St. Petersburg cafe,” said Semyon Pegov, blogger under the nickname War Gonzo.
Oleksandr Khodakovsky, a leading pro-Moscow figure in eastern Ukraine, wrote: “Max, if you were a nobody, you would die from ‘vodka and a cold. But you were a danger to them, you did your job like no other. We will pray for you brother.
Mark Trevelyan and Felix Light. REUTERS.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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