‘National Republican Army’ takes responsibility for explosion that killed Vladlen Tatarsky

The “National Republican Army” has taken the responsibility for the explosion in Saint Petersburg that killed “war correspondent” Vladlen Tatarsky, Rospartizan Telegram channel reports.

“We set up and carried out the act that happened on 2 April 2023. It targeted a group of Z-activists and personally the notorious warmonger and war propagandist, war criminal Maxim Fomin, known as Vladlen Tatarsky. This action was prepared and carried out by us independently, and we had no connection with and no assistance from any foreign structures, let alone special services,” the statement says.

The Saint Petersburg part of the organisation says the attack did not target civilians, and that “everyone who suffered from the attack are active supporters of the war”.

Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian MP who is now sided with Ukraine, claimed in the summer of 2022 that the “National Republican Army” was behind the assassination of Daria Dugina, the daughter of Alexander Dugin, the idea-monger of the “Russian world” doctrine.

An explosion at a cafe in Saint Petersburg happened on 2 April and killed Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin), a “war correspondent”. Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously decorated him with the Order of Courage.

A meeting of the discussion club “Cyber Z front” was held in the cafe. It is alleged that one of the individuals that attended the meeting, namely Darya Trepova, gifted Tatarsky with a statuette, a bomb concealed inside of it.

The Investigative Committee initiated a criminal procedure on the account of murder and then reclassified it to a “terror attack”. A 26-year-old native of St. Petersburg Daria Trepova is suspected of committing a crime; she was detained earlier. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee claims that the Ukrainian special services and Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation plotted the explosion.