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Russian war blogger killed in huge explosion at St. Petersburg cafe, dozens injured [1]

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Date: 2023-04-02  

Russian war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was reported killed today when a huge bomb went off in a cafe in St. Petersburg, Russia. At least 25 others were reported injured.

x The moment of the explosion in a cafe in St. Petersburg today, during which Russian military propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky was reportedly killed pic.twitter.com/UNGrcFArKj — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) April 2, 2023

Tatarsky was a full-on cheerleader for the war and promoter of genocide. His departure from the Earth is no loss. He was holding an event at the cafe so it is not clear if the others injured were also Russian war supporters or just people in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is also unknown who did this — was it Ukrainian special forces, partisans or maybe some husband whose wife Tatarsky was sleeping with.

x Tatarsky was a real sweetie of Z land: "We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone we need, everything will be as we like." pic.twitter.com/1CLHOx0zVq — Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) April 2, 2023

Here is a BBC report:

Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) was a vocal supporter of Russia's war in Ukraine. He was a guest speaker at an event hosted by the cafe when the bomb went off. ……. Interior Ministry sources quoted by Russia's RIA news agency said a bomb was hidden in a statue presented to Tatarsky in a box as a gift. The cafe targeted on Sunday was previously owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia's notorious Wagner mercenary group, the St Petersburg news site Fontanka reports.

This is interesting. The woman with Tatarsky is Daria Dugina, the daughter of Putin ally Alexander Dugin, who was blown up in a car bombing in Moscow.

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