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A prominent pro-Putin military blogger has died and more than a dozen other people were injured when a bomb went off in a cafe in the Russian city of St Petersburg.
Russian news reports said blogger Vladlen Tatarsky - real name Maxim Fomin - was killed and 15 people were hurt in the explosion at the Street Bar cafe in the country’s second largest city.
Tatarsky was one of the most prominent of the influential military bloggers who have provided an often critical running commentary on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
He was meeting with members of the public at the cafe and a woman presented him with a statuette that apparently exploded, according to local reports.
It comes after six civilians were killed and eight wounded in Russian shelling of Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine on Sunday morning, a senior Ukrainian official has said.
Kostiantynivka, home to about 70,000 people before the war, is just 12.5 miles west of Bakhmut, the epicentre of fighting for at least eight months as Russian forces try to capture the city.
Russia‘s foreign ministry says Western silence over cafe bombing shows ‘hypocrisy’
Russia‘s foreign ministry made no accusations of involvement in the attack on a cafe in St Petersburg, but said silence in Western capitals exposed hypocrisy over expressions of concern for journalists.
Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, said the absence of reaction in Washington, London and Paris “speaks for itself given their ostensible concern for the well-being of journalists and freedom of expression.”
She wrote on the ministry’s website: “The reaction in Kyiv is striking where those who receive Western grants are in no way concealing their delight at what has happened.”
Watch: Russian military blogger handed statue moments before cafe explosion
Bakhmut front line ‘especially hot’ today, President Zelensky says
Volodymyr Zelensky has paid tribute to Ukrainian soldiers fighting against Russia.
Moscow has been sending waves and waves of attacks against the front line city in eastern Ukraine, which has been raised to the ground following months of war.
In his nightly address on Telegram, the Ukrainian president said: “I am grateful to our warriors who are fighting near Avdiivka, Maryinka, near Bakhmut.
“Especially Bakhmut! It's especially hot there today!”
Ukrainian forces have continued to hold on in Bakhmut despite calls from some Western pundits for them to abandon the city.
Now, according to some reports, Russia's offensive appears to be culminating in the city.
President Zelensky added: “The resilience of everyone is the resilience of the whole of Ukraine, helping everyone in a position nearby is helping the whole of Ukraine!”
ICYMI: Pro-Putin military blogger killed in St Petersburg cafe explosion
One person was killed and 16 injured in an explosion in a cafe in Russia's St Petersburg on Sunday, the TASS news agency reported, citing emergency services.
News agency RIA has said well-known military blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky, has been killed in the explosion.
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 provided an often critical running commentary on Russia's war in Ukraine.
He was among hundreds of attendees at a lavish Kremlin ceremony last September to proclaim Russia's annexation of four partly occupied regions of Ukraine, a move that most countries at the UN condemned as illegal.
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Pictured: scene after St Petersburg cafe explosion
Russian investigators and police officers stand at the side of an explosion at a cafe in St. Petersburg, Russia
Russian police officers are seen at the site of an explosion at a cafe in St. Petersburg, Russia
Video: One person killed and 15 injured in St Petersburg cafe blast
Pro-Putin military blogger killed in St Petersburg cafe explosion
One person was killed and six injured in an explosion in a cafe in Russia‘s St Petersburg on Sunday, the TASS news agency reported, citing emergency services.
News agency RIA has said well-known military blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky, has been killed in the explosion.
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 provided an often critical running commentary on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The Body in the Woods | An Independent TV Original Documentary
It was a month into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian forces had withdrawn from around Kyiv and in their wake Bel Trew and her team stumbled on a body by an abandoned Russian camp.
His hands were tied. He had been burned and shot in the back. Soldiers said he was a teenager.
As Bel tried to find out who he was and what had happened, she uncovered a nightmare world: a nation struggling to find thousands of its missing and to identify its dead.
The Body in the Woods | An Independent TV Original Documentary
It was a month into Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Russian forces had withdrawn from around Kyiv and in their wake Bel Trew and her team stumbled on a body by an abandoned Russian camp. His hands were tied. He had been burned and shot in the back. Soldiers said he was a teenager. As Bel tried to find out who he was and what had happened, she uncovered a nightmare world: a nation struggling to find thousands of its missing and to identify its dead. The Body in the Woods by Bel Trew is streaming now on Independent TV and on your smart TV.
Lavrov held phone call with Blinken
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov held a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Russian news agencies said on Sunday, citing Russia‘s foreign ministry.
They did not say what was discussed.
The conversation came at a time of acute tension in U.S.-Russian relations, three days after Russia said it had arrested Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. reporter for the Wall Street Journal, on charges of espionage.
Journal reporter's arrest threatens reporting from Russia
The arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in Russia has news organizations based outside the country weighing for the second time in a year whether the risks of reporting there during wartime are too great.
The Journal and other news outlets continued to press Friday for the release of Evan Gershkovich, He was taken into custody by Russian security officials a day earlier and accused of spying, charges the newspaper vehemently denies.
More than 30 press freedom groups and news organizations, including the Journal, The New York Times, BBC, The Associated Press, The New Yorker, Time and The Washington Post, signed a letter Friday to Anatoly I. Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., expressing concern about “a significant escalation in your government’s anti-press actions.
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