Explosion in Saint Petersburg – AS.com

An explosion in the cafe “Street Food Bar No. 1” in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg has left at least one dead and 16 injured this Sunday afternoon, as reported by the Tass agency. The fatality is Vladlen Tatarskia pro-Russian war blogger who has more than 560,000 followers on Telegram.

As explained by the Russian emergency services, an “explosive device” went off in the cafe. However, the Russian state broadcaster Vesti assures that Tatarski I would have received a bomb doll in the cafeteria where an event was being held.

According to Fontanka, in the cafeteria Frente Cibernetico Z acts are usually organized on weekendswhich is believed to be associated with Prigozhin and which, according to the Institute for Strategic Study (ISD), is a troll factory that is being used to promote Russian propaganda on social media. The St. Petersburg newspaper indicates that, according to an announcement published on the VKontakte social network, the Russian Facebook, this Sunday one of these events was held with Tatarski in the direction where the cafeteria is located.

The cafeteria would have belonged to the restaurant entrepreneur and head of the Wagner Group, Yevgueni Prigozhin, according to the local newspaper Fontanka. “The force of the explosive device was more than 200 grams of TNT (trinitrotoluene)”, a source from the bodies and security forces told the official TASS agency.

According to Fontanka, who cites witnesses to the explosion, one of the guests, an alleged woman, brought the war correspondent a statuette of Tatarski’s own bust containing the explosive that went off.