<p>A blast in St. Petersburg on Sunday killed a military blogger who supported <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine</a>, Russian authorities reported.</p>
<p>Russia&#8217;s Interior Ministry said Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, died in the explosion at a cafe where he was a guest speaker at an event, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65155075" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to BBC News</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;The makeshift explosive device that went off in a St. Petersburg cafe was stuffed with striking elements. The target was war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky,&#8221; a spokesperson for law enforcement agencies <a href="https://tass.com/emergencies/1598227" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Russian state news service TASS</a>.</p>
<p>The spokesperson reportedly added that the explosive device was about the size of a soap bar and was hidden in a figurine presented to Tatarsky. The TASS report noted that preliminary data show the device had a yield of more than 200 grams of TNT and went off near the stage where Tatarsky was holding an event.</p>
<p>Upwards of a dozen or more other people were reported to have been wounded and hospitalized, though the exact number appears to vary based on the source.</p>
<p>It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the blast.</p>
<p>Video posted to social media shared by Russian state media outlets appeared to show the explosion from a distance, blowing out the windows of a building, and images from the aftermath.</p>
<p>A pro-Russian group called Cyber Front Z posted to Telegram to say it had reserved space at the cafe, Street Food Bar No. 1, for the evening, <a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/leading-military-blogger-killed-in-st-petersburg-cafe-blast-russian-news-agencies-f3ff864a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Agency France-Presse reported</a>.</p>
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<p>&#8220;There was a terrorist attack. We took certain security measures but unfortunately they were not enough,&#8221; the group said. &#8220;Condolences to everyone who knew the excellent war correspondent and our friend Vladlen Tatarsky.&#8221;</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/world/europe/russian-military-blogger-explosion.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times reported</a> that Tatarsky, 40, had amassed more than 550,000 followers on the Telegram messaging app. He is from Makiivka, which is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/putin-visits-russian-occupied-mariupol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">near Donetsk</a>, a region in Ukraine that Russia claimed to have annexed last year.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-02/st-petersburg-explosion-kills-one-injures-six-tass-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bloomberg News reported</a> that Tatarsky was at the Kremlin ceremony to announce the annexation of Donetsk along with three other occupied Ukraine regions in September.</p>
<p>“We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will rob everyone who needs to be robbed,” Tatarsky said in a video at the time. “Everything will be the way we like it.”</p>
<p>Russia began what it called a “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, in an ongoing conflict that has led to tens of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people.</p>

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