A Russian journalist who supported and covered the Ukraine war extensively was just killed in a bombing. He was speaking at a St. Petersburg cafe and the cafe was bombed. Numerous people were killed and injured.
Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed by a bomb blast at a St Petersburg cafe in what appeared to be the second assassination on Russian soil of a figure closely associated with the war in Ukraine https://t.co/3BCOwYZcL4 pic.twitter.com/uX0GTZDgWO
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 3, 2023
❗️ Explosion at café in St Petersburg – at least one dead and six injured – media
The cause of the blast remains unknown. pic.twitter.com/ThLp7Fp2lo
— RT (@RT_com) April 2, 2023
‼️ Preliminarily, the bomb was in the "award" given to Tatarsky
A video shows Tatarsky being given a statuette.
The power of the explosive device in St. Petersburg was more than 200 grams of TNT, police said. The number of injured in the explosion has risen to 15. pic.twitter.com/RHtsHbe0cC
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 2, 2023
A woman is being questioned about the bombing.
Video showing the moment Daria Teprova, planting the bomb in a cafe in St Petersburg which killed over a dozen civilians including Vladen Tatarsky. She’s currently in custody and being questioned over terrorism charges pic.twitter.com/H18XSsWnAH
— LogKa (@LogKa11) April 2, 2023
This is the second high profile terrorist attack targeting Russians since the war began.
Gee, I wonder who carried out this terrorist attack on a cafe in St. Petersburg where a Russian journalist was killed as he held an event on the war in Ukraine, along with 12 others who were wounded. Wonder if it might be the same people who murdered Darya Dungina in her car? https://t.co/Kb2abjQfr8
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 2, 2023
The Ukrainian side can’t win the war so they are resorting to killing civilians in terrorist attacks. Of course, killing journalists is not going to help them win the war.
Quite frankly, this act is politically stupid and dumb from a public relations standpoint. It will only embolden Russian support for the war which is already very high. It reinforces the notion that this is an existential war for Russia itself.
🔥Russian forces have captured Artyomovsk-#Bakhmut in Donetsk Republic
– Yevgeny Prigozhin, raising the 🇷🇺Russian flag over the city administration building & paying tribute to journalist Vladlen Tatarsky, assassinated in St. Petersburg earlier by 🇬🇧UK-🇺🇲US-🇪🇺EU-armed forces. pic.twitter.com/3HN3dR9uWX— Afshin Rattansi (@afshinrattansi) April 2, 2023
