Ein bekannter russischer Kriegsberichterstatter ist am Sonntag bei einer Explosion in einem Café im Zentrum der russischen Ostseemetropole Sankt Petersburg ums Leben gekommen. Ihm wurde eine Bombe – versteckt in einer goldenen Büste – zum Verhängnis.Weitere 25 Menschen wurden bei der Detonation des Sprengsatzes verletzt, wie die Staatsagentur Tass weiter berichtete. Der 40-jährige Journalist und Blogger mit dem Pseudonym Wladlen Tatarskij, der aus dem Donbass in der Ostukraine stammt, sei auf der Stelle tot gewesen. Tatarskij, dessen richtiger Name Maxim Fomin lautet, hatte nach offiziell unbestätigten Medienberichten am Sonntag zu einem „patriotischen Abend“ in das Café „Stritfud-Bar No.1“ im Zentrum von Sankt Petersburg eingeladen. Dieses soll nach Medienberichten Jewgeni Prigoschin, dem Chef der berüchtigten Söldnertruppe Wagner, gehört haben. Nach ersten Erkenntnissen der Ermittler war der Sprengsatz in einer Büste eingebaut, die Tatarskij bei dem Treffen als Geschenk überreicht wurde. Das Geschenk – Augenzeuge berichteten von einer vergoldeten Büste des Bloggers – sei ihm von einer jungen Frau überreicht worden, schrieben örtliche Medien. Sie habe sich anschließend in eine der hinteren Zuschauerreihen gesetzt, sei aber nach der Explosion verschwunden.
via rp online: Bekannter russischer Kriegsblogger Wladlen Tatarskij stirbt nach Anschlag mit goldener Büste
siehe auch: Bomb kills Russian war blogger in St Petersburg cafe. Well-known Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb blast in a St Petersburg cafe on Sunday in what appeared to be the second assassination on Russian soil of a figure closely associated with the war in Ukraine. Russia’s state Investigative Committee said it had opened a murder investigation. State-owned RIA news agency said 25 people were wounded and 19 of them were being treated in hospital. A leading Russian official pointed the finger at Ukraine, without providing evidence. A Ukrainian presidential adviser said “domestic terrorism” was breaking out in Russia. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story Register now Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, had more than 560,000 followers on Telegram and was one of the most prominent of the influential military bloggers who have championed Russia’s war effort in Ukraine while often criticising the army top brass. “We’ll defeat everyone, we’ll kill everyone, we’ll rob everyone we need to. Everything will be as we like it,” he was shown saying in a video clip last September at a Kremlin ceremony where President Vladimir Putin claimed four occupied regions of Ukraine as Russian territory – a move rejected as illegal by most countries; Russian pro-war blogger killed in St Petersburg restaurant blast Vladlen Tatarsky had been meeting supporters and subscribers at venue in city centre. One of Russia’s most influential pro-Kremlin war bloggers, Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed in a blast at a restaurant in St Petersburg on Sunday. (…) According to local news outlet Fontanka, an unknown woman handed Tatarsky a statuette of himself, possibly stuffed with explosives, that exploded about five minutes later. The Ren-TV channel posted a video showing Tatarsky taking the figurine out of a bag and looking at it, film allegedly shot by a social media user directly before the explosion. The venue has alleged links to Wagner mercenary group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. Fontanka reported that Prigozhin had owned two different cafés in the same location as the restaurant where the explosion took place. The bar located there now hosts a discussion club at weekends called “Cyberfront Z” — Z being a symbol of those supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Tatarsky is one of the most prominent pro-Kremlin “military correspondents” and a native of Makiivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. He had fought on the side of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic as well as for units of the Luhansk People’s Republic.