According to the Russian media, the victim of the explosion in the Street Bar cafe on the St. Petersburg embankment was allegedly a propagandist and pro-war blogger writing under the pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky, who was having a conversation in the cafe.
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The information about Tatarský’s death was confirmed by the BBC by another so-called a war correspondent who was a close acquaintance of his. He told the BBC that Tatarsky was taken to the hospital, where he died in the intensive care unit.
An explosion took place on Sunday in a St. Petersburg cafe, which is associated with the owner of the Wagner Group, Yevgeniy Prigozhin. One person lost his life, another 16 people were injured.
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According to the BBC, the St. Petersburg server Fontanka states that the cafe in which the explosion took place belongs to businessman Prigozhin. During the weekends, the discussion club Kyber Z front met in the cafe.
According to the Russian media, the victim of the explosion in the Street Bar cafe on the St. Petersburg embankment was allegedly a propagandist and pro-war blogger writing under the pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky, who was having a conversation in the cafe.
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The letter Z has become one of the symbols in support of the war launched by Russia in Ukraine on February 24 last year. Even before the start of the war, it appeared on Russian military equipment being moved to the borders of Ukraine. After the outbreak of war, in support of the so-called of a special military operation – how one must speak and write about war in Russia – supporters of the Kremlin’s policy also began to use it as stickers on cars, printed on T-shirts or on billboards on the walls of buildings.
Apparently, the donated statuette exploded
Russia’s Interior Ministry confirmed on Sunday that leading Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in an explosion at a cafe in the city of St. Petersburg. 16 people were injured, the ministry added in a status on the Telegram network, from which AFP quoted.
In this September 20, 2010 file photo, Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a tour of his plant in St. Petersburg.
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Official reports did not say whether anyone claimed responsibility for the blast, which occurred at 6:13 p.m. local time on Sunday. No other details are available either – except that one of the cafe’s guests had with him “explosive device”. The ministry added that investigators are working at the scene of the explosion.
Russian media and military bloggers said Tatarsky met his readers at the cafe, with one of the women presenting him with a box containing the statuette, which appeared to have exploded.
Darja Trepov is suspected of killing Russian pro-war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, the Russian Ministry of the Interior announced on Monday and placed her on the list of wanted persons. TASR informs according to a report by the Reuters agency, which referred to the Russian Interfax.
Tatarsky, whose real name is Maxim Fomin, has more than 500,000 followers on Telegram. The Russian news agency TASS added that Tatarsky published text and video recordings from Ukraine, as well as from the Kremlin, under various pseudonyms, and was a supporter of the so-called a special military operation – a war unleashed by the Russian army in Ukraine.
In a still from the video, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, at an unspecified location in Ukraine, pleads with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to withdraw the remaining Ukrainian forces from Bakhmut and save their lives.
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Tatarsky, 40, was from the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, which Russia claims to have annexed. Currently, part of this territory is occupied by Russian troops. The St. Petersburg server Fontanka, according to the BBC, states that the cafe where the explosion took place belongs to the founder of the mercenary Wagner group and entrepreneur in the gastro sector Yevgeniy Prigozhin. During the weekends, the discussion club Kyber Z front met in the cafe.
The AP agency reported that Kyber Z front, which is referred to on social networks as “Information units of Russia”, confirmed that he had rented the cafe for Sunday evening. “There was a terrorist attack. We took some security measures, but unfortunately they were not enough,” the Telegram group said.
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