known Pro-Russian military blogger killed and 16 injured This Sunday in St. An explosion occurred in a cafeteria in St. Petersburg (Russia), which must have belonged to the restoration businessman and the head of the department. wagner groupAccording to the local Fontanka newspaper, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
“The power of the explosive device was more than 200 grams of TNT. (trinitrotoluene),” a law enforcement source told the official TASS news agency.
The Ministry of Interior confirmed that 16 people were injured and the deceased was a well-known person. war correspondent Vladen Tatarski.
According to Fontanka, they are usually organized at the cafeteria on weekends. Actions of Cybernetic Front ZA troll factory believed to be linked to Prigozhin and used to support Russian propaganda on social media, according to the Institute for Strategic Studies (ISD).
The St. Petersburg newspaper states that, according to an announcement published on Russia’s Facebook social network VKontakte, one of these events was held this Sunday at the address where Tatarski and the cafe are located.
“It is known that the cafe was previously owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin”He wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to Fontanka, one of the guests, citing eyewitnesses of the explosion, allegedly brought the war correspondent a figurine containing an explosive device.
Tatarski is a blogger and one of the world’s most famous military correspondents, according to independent media outlet Meduza. became famous during Russian military campaign in Ukraine.
He was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine and fought in the self-proclaimed people’s republic in 2014. Her Telegram channel had more than 560,000 subscribers.