A prominent Russian military blogger and war correspondent was killed in an explosion in St. Petersburg on Sunday.
According to Russian media, Maksim Fomin, who went by the name Vladlen Tatarsky, was hosting an event at a cafe when an explosion killed him and wounded at least 19 others.
Tatarsky was known for his extensive coverage of the conflict in Ukraine on Telegram. He previously fought for the Donbas militias of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics following the 2014 US-backed coup in Kyiv that ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych. He later left military service and became a war correspondent.
According to Russian law enforcement, Tatarsky was the intended target of the attack. “The makeshift explosive device that went off in a St. Petersburg cafe was stuffed with striking elements. The target was war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky,” a spokesman for Russian law enforcement agencies said.
The spokesman said the explosive was about the size of a soap bar and was hidden in a figurine that was presented to Tatarsky in the cafe.
The incident marks the second high-profile assassination inside Russia since the invasion was launched last year. In August 2022, Darya Dugina, the daughter of the prominent Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, was killed in a car bombing outside Moscow.
The New York Times later reported that the US believes the Ukrainian government was behind Dugina’s killing, although Kyiv officially denies involvement.
While Ukraine’s government is a natural suspect in the Tatarsky killing, Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, suggested the assassination was the result of domestic strife inside Russia.
“It begins … Spiders are eating each other in a jar. Question of when domestic terrorism would become an instrument of internal political fight was a matter of time,” Podolyak wrote on Twitter.
“It begins … Spiders are eating each other in a jar. Question of when domestic terrorism would become an instrument of internal political fight was a matter of time,” Podolyak wrote on Twitter.
Here’s your bags, what’s your hurry?
This is entirely reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
Back to assassinations now. How humanity have devolved.
I m sure the most prominent ones who r justifying it r the same ones who condemned the Palestinians for carrying out suicide bombing in Israel.
While Kiev terrorist regime exists, no journalist is safe. There were also attempts to kill Russian leading TV presenters.
When it comes to killing Russian journalists Putin has killed way more.
Many times repeated lie is accepted as undeniable truth – the golden rule of the corporate media propaganda.
I’m just waiting for some idiot to blow up some really major Moscow memorial, like its Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The Kiev-Pechersk-Lavra eviction is pretty close in re their own population, a piece de resistance of Nazi stupidity.
I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but there is a report of a Ukrainian chartered yacht moored just outside the building before the bomb went off.
Doubt that. I don’t believe Russia would let anything labeled “Ukraine” anywhere near a port.
OB1, you are not jumping to conclusions, you are simply being conspiratorial. 🙂 like me…………….
You know about the yacht of the pro Ukrainians who sabotaged the pipelines? OB is as good as the CIA.
Nothing can justify this act of terrorism. But as I said months ago, if the war continues there will be resistance in Russia. In a closed society like Russia where peaceful opposition to the war is illegal, the resistance will inevitably take extreme forms, including terrorism. There are millions of Ukrainians living in Russia and millions of Russians who oppose the war. The resistance in Russia will build until Russia gets leadership with the wisdom and courage to end the war.
Russia has detained a 26 yuear old suspect in the cafe blast. Her husband says that although they are both anti-war activists, he believes that she was duped into bringing the statue to the Cafe that the Russian authorities believe contained an explosive device. At the bottom of this BBC article is a video of the statue being handed to Tatarsky.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65161095
Looks like she knew enough to get out of the way before the thing exploded injuring some 19 people in addition of the killing.
She knew what she was doing. It was also a woman who did the job killing the journalist daughter of the philosophe writer.
Targeted assassination, terrorism would be banging an S300 into a shopping mall.
I am reminded on the civil rights movement here in the US and the assassinations the nation experienced.
Ukraine needs leadership with character and integrity, they have corrupt neo-Nazis committing war crimes with Biden’s blessings. Zelensky has a death list, it is well known, it has never been denied and Biden and MSM don’t mention it.
The neocons in the state department, people like Nuland, Blinken, Sullivan and the people in DOD and WH are morally bankrupt.
One of the world’s top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, Ivan Katchanovski a Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist at the University of Ottawa, had tabled overwhelming evidence to show that the Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers. operatives firing from protester-occupied buildings. This of course was suppressed in all MSM.
Sensational confessions of two Georgians:
Alexander Revazishvili: “We had an assignment to shoot both the Berkut police and the protesters, which shocked me”. “We were paid a thousand dollars, and promised another 5 thousand later”.
Koba Nergadze: “We went to Maidan on Mikhail Saakashvili’s personal order.”, “We were met by Andrei Parubiy.”, “We had to provoke chaos to make people fight against the Berkut.”, “I’m a soldier, I can’t disobey the order”.
Once at Maidan the Georgians met Brian Christopher Boyenger, an American military instructor. Brian Christopher Boyenger a US sniper in the US 101st Airborne Division ran a US/NATO covert operation out of the the third floor of the Ukraina Hotel, which at the time was locked down by the Right Sector (a Nazi Paramilitary). This NATO covert operation was responsible for the sniper fire mass murder of Maidan protesters and Berkut Police.
Brian Christopher Boyenger: “There’s always been a long tradition of American volunteers taking part in the settlement of conflicts in other countries”.
After the Maidan the leaders of two right wing Nazi organisations were rewarded with control of four ministries. For example, Andriy Parubiy, co-founder of the fascist Social National Party (SNPU), which later changed its name to Svoboda, became the new top commander of the National Defense and Security Council. (covering the military, police, courts and intelligence apparatus). The CIA renamed the organisation to “Svoboda,” meaning “Freedom,” to make it more acceptable to the American people.
Dmytro Yarosh, Right Sector commander, was second-in-command of the National Defense and Security Council. This is the man who organized and ran Ukraine’s February 22nd Coup in Kiev, and the May 2nd Massacre of Its Opponents in Odessa. Yarosh’s teams carried out the most violent operations for the CIA in Ukraine. They were responsible for the atrocities committed in the Donbass, for the crimes against humanity.
Oleh Tyahnybok, co founder of the SNPU and currently the party leader of Svoboda, A self confessed Nazi. He opposed the introduction of the Russian language as the second official state language; called for the lustration of former communist officials. He also proposed recognition of the fighting role of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army during World War II.
Barack Obama had chosen to spearhead Nazi’s into positions of authority in Kiev. They took their orders on crucial military and foreign policy issues including the deployment of troops directed against the Russian federation, from the the US State Department, the Pentagon and NATO.
From fabricating an “invasion,” to the claims of “threatened” lives, to the labeling of Russians as “subhuman, ” After the coup Yatsenyuk the US assigned Prime Minister recited fully the script of Nazism used to justify its various historical crimes against humanity. Barack Obama’s Nazi’s in eastern Ukraine were not fighting an “invasion,” but constituted an invading force themselves, making incursions into eastern Ukraine and holding territory only through unmitigated brutality against local populations clearly collaborating with armed self-defense forces intent on resisting Barack Obama’s Nazism.
Barack (We Tortured Some Folks) Obama, Joe (What day is it) Biden and Victoria (Eff the EU) Nuland must be arrested and stand trial for their many many crimes against humanity of which the Maidan mass murder was one example of a huge number of war crimes.
100% agree. An evil method to frame governments as “killing innocent unarmed protestors.” The leader of that government would be quickly labeled as a “dictator.” Then comes your concocted poison gas attacks for a full fledged “humanitarian intervention.” …You think I’m kidding? We have such little grey matter left in our brains from all the brain washing, we could fall for the same thing again tomorrow! That is of course until we stumble on a nuclear Armageddon, then that would be the end of it. (Sarcasm alert)
NA:
Good post but I’m not sure I see the sarcasm, I see the real potential. 😉
“Ignorance is Strength”……………..
“Hope and Change” Obama,”Social Security is a Sacred Cow” Biden, “EF the EU” Nuland.
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Great post.
“Prominent Russian Military Journalist Killed in St. Petersburg Blast At least 19 others were wounded by a bomb detonated inside a cafe”
After thoughtful investigation the bear will target the perpetrators and that will be their last day.
This time no one is claiming Putin dunit.
The effect of this event has been to intensify hatred between Russia and US.
The SMO is on its last legs. Shock and Awe war is coming in to replace it.
One of the few remaining steps is for Russia to have dialogs with China and India for them to sign off on it.
We should also find out shortly if the US really DOES gave a thousand or two tanks somewhere ready to go. My bet is yes.
The effect of this event has been to intensify hatred between Russia and US.
The SMO is on its last legs. Shock and Awe war is coming in to replace it.
One of the few remaining steps is for Russia to have dialogs with China and India for them to sign off on it.
We should also find out shortly if the US really DOES gave a thousand or two tanks somewhere ready to go. My bet is yes.
The NATO member states have become terrorist states. If they they can’t win with soldiers on the ground they use terrorism to get what they want. They do it to allies too. The USA is a Pariah state and NATO a crime syndicate.
Ukraine and their US masters are state sponsors of terrorism.
“NOT A SINGLE CASE OF THE VIOLENT DEATH OF A RUSSIAN JOURNALIST, ASSESSED BY THE KIEV REGIME AS A ‘SUCCESS’ HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED, OR EVEN TREATED WITH ELEMENTARY HUMAN SYMPATHY BY WESTERN COUNTRIES, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OR FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES.”
Joe Biden is the Nord Stream bomber.
“Journalist”? No, he was a vicious pro-war, pro-Putin propagandist.