Leading Russian military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maksim Fomin), has been reportedly killed in an explosion in Saint Petersburg on Sunday.
RIA Novosti has claimed, citing a security source, that the blogger died in an attack on the city's ‘Street Bar’ café, which also left more than a dozen injured.
The venue belongs to "Wagner" PMC founder Evgeny Prigozhin, according to local news outlet Fontanka. Moscow daily Kommersant says this was confirmed by his Concord catering company in 2020.
Tatarsky joined the Donbass militias back in 2014 in the wake of the Maidan coup in Kiev. He has since become known in Russia as a blogger and a correspondent reporting on the situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. Tatarsky has also authored several books. (more...)
Prominent Russian military blogger killed in St. Petersburg blast
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