An attack, allegedly committed by an unidentified woman, in a cafeteria in St. Petersburg (Russia) killed pro-Russian blogger yesterday Vladlen Tatarsky (40 years). The coffee, ‘Street Food Bar № 1’belonged to the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin. In addition to the deceased, there were also injured 25 people19 of them had to be sent to the hospital for treatment.
The alleged terrorist attended a meeting of the Cyber Front Za group that british intelligence has qualified as “troll factory” dedicated to spreading lies. Yesterday she had the presence of the blogger, as an honorary member.
A prominent Russian official pointed to Ukraine as responsible for the attack, without providing proof of it. “He was viciously murdered. Terrorists can’t do otherwise. The kyiv regime is a terrorist regime. Must be destroyedthere is no other way to stop it,” said Denis Pushlin. On the other hand, a Ukrainian presidential adviser spoke on the matter alleging an increase in the “domestic terrorism” inside Russia.
[Un atentado en un café propiedad del líder del Grupo Wagner mata a un bloguero militar prorruso]
Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fominwas born in in Makiivka, located in the Oblast of Donetsk (Ukraine) and held both Ukrainian and Russian nationality.
In 2011, it was imprisoned in Ukraine for robbing a bank, but when the war broke out in Donbas, the blogger He managed to escape from prison and joined the Vostok Battalion to fight with the pro-Russian forces located in Donetsk. For this reason he was again imprisoned.
The moment of an explosion in a cafe in St. Petersburg. Propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky held an event there. He is reportedly killed and six others were wounded. pic.twitter.com/lWijn522qN
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He was finally pardoned by the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, and was offered the opportunity to join the Ukrainian army. After his military stage, in 2019 he began blogging under the pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky, from Moscow.
The blogger had more than 560,000 followers in Telegram. He was one of the most influential military bloggers, who have defended Russia’s war effort in Ukraine and who has frequently criticized the failures of the high command of the army.
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
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He often referred to Ukraine as a “state terrorist”being one of his most famous quotes the one he enunciated last September, “we will defeat everyone, we will kill everyonewe’ll steal everyone we need. everything will be as we like“.
Attempt
The TASS news agency quoted a anonymous source who assured that the bomb was hidden in a miniature statueIt was given to him while he was addressing a group of people in the cafe.
Mash, a Telegram channel with links to Russian law enforcement, posted a video that appeared to show Tatarsky, microphone in hand, receiving a statuette. of a soldier with a helmet. She said the explosion happened minutes later.
Donbass fighter and blogger Vladlen Tatarsky has been killed by a booby-traped statuette handed to him by the woman pictured below in a cafe in St Petersburg, Russia. pic.twitter.com/FDTUr4yTWl
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Denis Pushlin, the Moscow-based leader of the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Donetsk province, publicly suggested Ukraine was to blame. “He was viciously murdered. Terrorists can’t do otherwise. The kyiv regime is a terrorist regime. It must be destroyed, there is no other way to stop it,” he said.
The Russian war bloggers have become military correspondents and independent commentators with experience in the military. The Kremlin has given them the freedom to publish hard-hitting views on the war, going so far as to appoint one of them to its human rights council last year.
“He was in the hot spots of the special military operation and he always came out alive. But the war found him in a Petersburg cafe,” he said. Semyon Pegovwho blogs under the name of War Gonzo.
Alexander Khodakovsky, a leading pro-Russian figure in eastern Ukraine, also expressed his condolences: “Max, if you were nobody, you would have died of ‘vodka and cold’. But you were dangerous to them, you did your job like nobody else could. We will pray for you, brother.”
Russian citizens create an altar at the scene of the events.
‘Mature abscess’
Mykhailo PodolyakUkrainian presidential adviser, wrote on his Twitter account that it was only a matter of time, “like the bursting of a mature abscess”before Russia was cconsumed by what he called internal terrorism. “The spiders are eating each other in a jar,” she said.
It begins in RF… Spiders are eating each other in a jar. Question of when domestic terrorism would become an instrument of internal political fight was a matter of time, as breakthrough of ripe abscess. Irreversible processes and Troubles 2.0. await RF. While we will watch.
— Mihaylo Podolyak (@Podolyak_M) April 2, 2023
Tatarsky’s death followed the assassination last August of Daria Duginathe daughter of a prominent ultranationalistin a car bomb attack near Moscow.
The Russian Federal Security Service accused the Ukrainian secret services to carry out that attack, which Putin described as “wicked”. An accusation that Ukraine denied.
