32 people were injured in an explosion that occurred yesterday, Sunday, in a cafe in the city of Saint Petersburg Why was a friend killed? Russian It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky.

With reference to the Ministry of Health of Russia, RIA reported today that 10 victims are in critical condition.

For its part, the Investigative Committee of Russia announced the initiation of a criminal case into the attack that claimed the life of the blogger Tatarsky.

A senior Russian official blamed the attack on Ukraine without providing evidence to support his claim. Adviser to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, on the contrary, spoke of “domestic terrorism” that is destroying Russia.

The Russian Foreign Ministry did not speculate about who was responsible for the attack, but denounced the West’s silence as hypocrisy in its concern for journalists.

Who was Vladlen Tatarsky?

Tatarsky, whose real name is Maksim Fomin, had over 560,000 Telegram followers and was one of the most prominent military bloggers who defended Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, although he often blamed high-ranking Russian military officials for it.

“We will defeat everyone, we will kill everyone, we will steal from everyone who needs it. Everything will be done the way we want,” he said at a ceremony in the Kremlin in September, during which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Moscow’s annexation of four regions of Ukraine.

TASS, citing an unnamed source, said the bomb was hidden in a small figurine presented to Tatarsky during a speech in a cafe.

The Mash Telegram channel, which is linked to Russian law enforcement agencies, posted a video showing Tatarsky being offered a statuette of a soldier. According to the same source, the explosion occurred a few minutes later.

Denis Pushilin, the pro-Russian leader of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, has publicly claimed that Kyiv was responsible for the attack.

“He was brutally murdered. Terrorists cannot do otherwise. The regime in Kyiv is a terrorist regime. It must be destroyed, there is no other way to stop it,” he stressed.

Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said the lack of response from Washington, Paris and London “speaks for itself” given their ongoing concerns about the safety of journalists and freedom of speech.

“Kyiv’s reaction is impressive, those who receive Western money in no way hide their pleasure from what happened,” he wrote on the ministry’s website.

“Mature abscess”

Zelensky’s adviser Mikhail Podolyak tweeted that it was only a matter of time, “like opening a ripe boil,” for Russia to be destroyed by what he called domestic terrorism.

“Spiders eat each other in a jar,” he said.

In August, Darya Dugin, daughter of prominent Russian nationalist Alexander Dugin, was killed when a car bomb blew her up.

Russia’s Federal Security Service blamed Ukraine’s security services for the attack, but Kyiv denied involvement.

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters}