A famous Russian military blogger has been killed and 15 others were injured in an explosion in St Petersburg. According to the reports, the blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky was a vocal supporter of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
He had reported from the Ukraine frontline and gained particular notoriety last year after posting a video filmed inside the Kremlin where he said “We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone as necessary. Just as we like it.”
Law enforcement agents told Russian news agency TASS that “an improvised explosive device that went off in a cafe in St Petersburg was stuffed with submunitions. “
Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, had well-over 560,000 followers on Telegram.
The TASS source added: “The improvised explosive device was hidden in a figurine that was presented to war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky, after which it went off.”
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