Prominent Russian army blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb blast in a St. Petersburg cafe on April 2, in what appeared to be the moment of the assassination on Russian soil of a figure strongly linked to the war in Ukraine.
Reuter
Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential adviser, wrote on Twitter that it was only a matter of time, “like the bursting of a mature abscess,” before Russia fed itself through what it called domestic terrorism.
“The spiders themselves in a jar,” he said.
Tatarsky’s death follows the killing last August of Darya Dugina, the daughter of a prominent ultranationalist, in a car bombing near Moscow.
Russia’s Federal Security Service accused the Ukrainian secret service of carrying out the attack, which Putin called “evil. “
Ukraine has denied any involvement.
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.
They reacted with surprise to Mr. Tatarsky’s.
“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 from eastern Ukraine, wrote: “Max, if you were nothing, you would have died of ‘vodka and colds. ‘But you hurt them, you did what no one else could do. We will pray for you, my brother.
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