Military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky was blown up in the center of St. Petersburg. This is the second high-profile murder of a war supporter in Russia.

Eight months after the explosion in the Moscow region, in which Daria Dugina died, an explosion took place in the center of St. Petersburg, which killed the military commander Vladlen Tatarsky .

Details . The explosion took place at 18:13 at Street Food Bar No. 1 on Universitetskaya Embankment, located two kilometers from the Hermitage. At that time, a creative evening “There is such a profession as a military commissar” with Vladlen Tatarsky was going on in the cafe.

• The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia confirmed the death of a military correspondent. Even up to 25 people, according to the latest data , were injured, of which 19 were hospitalized.
• Eyewitnesses of the explosion suggested that the figurine that the girl brought to the meeting exploded.
• Quote: “There were about 100 people,” said one of the eyewitnesses. - A certain Nastya was sitting at the table alone, she said: I am an artist, I wanted to make the heroics of the NWO, but this is not easy. That's why I made your bust so far only. He's in the closet. He goes there, takes a big box, gives it to him, there is something gilded. He jokes - I hope you didn't make me fat. Says thanks, puts next. She sits down in her place, passes for about three minutes. Explosion, pop, flames, everybody run. "Nastya", it seemed, did not leave in advance .

• The figurine, which the girl gave to Vladlen Tatarsky, was examined before handing it over to him, and the military commander himself knew who gave it - she handed him postcards more than once at events, RIA Novosti reports citing a source.
• According to another version, which is distributed by Telegram channels, the bomb was planted in the cafe in advance.
• in the telegram channels There is a video , in which Tatarsky examines the donated figurine. In addition, a video of the moment of the explosion, filmed by outdoor surveillance cameras, was published. Some telegram channels, including Rybar, publish a photo of the girl who allegedly gave the figurine.
• The real name of blogger Vladlen Tatarsky is Maxim Fomin. He was born in the city of Makeevka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, first worked as a miner, then went into business. On charges of armed robbery, he ended up behind bars and was released after his colony came under fire. In 2014, Fomin joined the militia and fought. Since 2020, he lived in Moscow, but after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he returned to the Donbass as a military commissar. At the time of his death, he ran one of the most popular pro-war telegram channels, with more than 550,000 subscribers.
• The video that the blogger recorded in the Kremlin after the ceremony of Russia's annexation of the self-proclaimed DPR, LPR and Kherson and Zaporozhye regions was widely circulated. In it, Tatarsky said: “We will kill everyone, we will rob everyone we need. Everything will be as we like.

Context . Daria Dugina, daughter of Russkiy Mir ideologist Alexander Dugin, died in a car explosion in the Moscow region on August 20. The FSB claims that the assassination attempt was organized by the Ukrainian special services, and the plan was carried out by Ukrainian citizen Natalia Vovk. Later, the department named another suspect - according to the intelligence service, this is a citizen of Ukraine, Bohdan Tsyganenko.

• In Kyiv, they denied involvement in the murder of Dugina.