Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, had more than 560,000 fans on Telegram
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A pro-Putin army blogger was killed and 30 others wounded in an explosion at a St. Petersburg café on Sunday, news firm TASS reported.
Vladlen Tatarsky died while having an argument in the café on the banks of the Neva River in the historic center of the city. Some reports indicated that a bomb embedded in a bust of the blogger had been given to him as a gift.
Russian news firm Interfax reported that a St. Petersburg woman, Darya Tryopova, was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack. She said she had been detained in the past for participating in anti-war rallies.
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.
Born in Donbass, Ukraine’s commercial heartland, Tatarsky worked as a coal miner before starting a furniture company. When he had money difficulties, he robbed a bank and was sentenced to prison. He fled after a Russian-backed separatist uprising hit Donbass in 2014. weeks after Moscow annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. He then joined the separatist rebels and fought on the front before turning to blogging. Tatarsky is known for his violent statements and fierce pro-war rhetoric.
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 website said Sunday’s explosion 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. “
Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-based leader of the Russian-occupied component of Ukraine’s Donetsk province, has publicly stated that Ukraine is to blame.
“He was despicably killed. Terrorists can do nothing else. The Kiev regime is a terrorist regime. It will have to be destroyed, there is no other way around it,” he said. 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.
Russian war bloggers, a collection of army correspondents and independent army commentators, have enjoyed ample freedom from the Kremlin to publish hard-hitting reviews of the war, now in its 14th month. Putin even appointed one of them as a member of his human rights council last year.
“He was at the critical points of the army’s special operation and came out alive. But the war discovered him in a café in Petersburg,” said Semyon Pegov, who blogs under the name War Gonzo.
Alexander Khodakovsky, a pro-Moscow figure in eastern Ukraine, wrote: “Max, if you were nothing, you would have died of ‘vodka and colds. ‘But you were harmful to them, you were doing your business like no one else could. “. We will pray for you, my brother.
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
Mr. Blinken called for the American journalist’s prompt release in the phone call with Mr. 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 deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said in a statement that did not mention Gershkovich.
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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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