Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real one is Maxim Fomin, had more than 560,000 fans on Telegram
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One user was killed and 16 injured on Sunday in an explosion at a café in St. Petersburg, Russia, news firm TASS reported, informing emergency services.
RIA news firm said well-known military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in the blast.
Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, had more than 560,000 fans on Telegram and was one of the most influential military bloggers who provided a common and occasionally critical observation about Russia’s war in Ukraine.
A well-known Russian army blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky, was reportedly killed in an explosion in St. Petersburg.
He was among many participants in a lavish Kremlin rite last September to proclaim Russia’s annexation of four partially occupied regions of Ukraine, a move most UN countries have condemned as illegal.
“We will beat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will borrow everything we need. Everything will be as we like,” he said in a video clip on the occasion.
A St. Petersburg said Sunday’s blast occurred at a café that had belonged to Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Wagner’s personal army fighting for Russia in Ukraine.
There was no indication of who the explosion was.
If Tatarsky were an intentional target, it would be the time of the assassination on Russian soil of a figure connected to the war in Ukraine.
Russian investigators and police endure explosion at a café in St. Petersburg, Russia
Russia’s Federal Security Service last August accused Ukraine’s secret service of killing Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultranationalist, in a car bombing near Moscow that President Vladimir Putin called “evil. “
Ukraine has denied any involvement.
Retired deputy marshal Sean Bell told Sky News there were not enough main points to recommend who the incident was, but he believes it would be “unlikely” that the Ukrainian government was involved.
After the explosion, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Twitter that “spiders eat others in a jar,” suggesting Russia is going through tough times because of its invasion.
This occurs when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the US Secretary of State that he was told that he was not able to do so. According to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, it is unacceptable for Washington to politicize the case of Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested and accused of spying in Russia.
The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations is about to explode in a café in St. Petersburg, Russia
Antony Blinken called for the American journalist’s prompt release in the phone call with M. Lavrov on Sunday, the U. S. State Department said. U. S.
“Secretary Blinken expressed America’s grave concern over Russia’s unacceptable detention of a U. S. citizen journalist. The secretary called for his prompt release,” U. S. State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said in a statement that did not mention Gershkovich’s name.
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A well-known Russian army blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky, was reportedly killed in an explosion in St. Petersburg.
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Russian investigators and police endure explosion at a café in St. Petersburg, Russia
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A well-known Russian army blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky, was reportedly killed in an explosion in St. Petersburg.
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