An attack on a restaurant in the Russian city of St. Petersburg has killed a well-known pro-Russian military officer and injured at least 25 others. The premises, called ‘Street Food Bar № 1’ and located at 25 Universitetskaya Embankment Avenue, belonged to the leader of the wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The body found corresponded to the war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky. He was born in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk and fought in 2014 in the self-proclaimed people’s republic. He had more than 560,000 subscribers to his Telegram channel.
According to the Fontanka outlet, which cites witnesses to the explosion, one of the guests, a woman supposedly, he handed over to the war correspondent a figurine containing the explosive. According to the emergency services, at the local exploded an explosive device of more than 200 grams of TNT.
#BREAKING: one person was killed and six injured in Saint Petersburg.
Report: Vladlen Tatarsky, one of the most known Russian military bloggers is deadpic.twitter.com/rcK6qkJrl9
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) April 2, 2023
In the cafeteria, events of the Cyber Front Zwhich is believed to be associated with Prigozhin and which, according to the Institute for Strategic Studies (ISD), is a troll factory that is being used to promote Russian propaganda on social media.
A well-known Russian war correspondent Maxim Fomin aka Vladlen Tatarsky has been killed as a result of the explosion of an explosive device during an awards ceremony in Saint Petersburg.
The explosive device was placed inside a statuette which he received. pic.twitter.com/gIFK83P7JB
— Status-6 (@Archer83Able) April 2, 2023
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