On April 2, in St. Petersburg, an explosion thundered in one of the cafes, at this time a creative evening was organized inside the institution by the former Donetsk militia, blogger and military commissar Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin). As a result of the attack, he died, about sixteen other people who were in the cafe were injured, of varying severity.
According to initial information, a young girl carried the bomb during a meeting with the military correspondent. She gave him a figurine, in which she had previously hidden the bomb. The meeting took place in a street cafe on the Universitetskaya Embankment. The area around the cafe is littered with broken glass. 13 ambulance crews and other emergency and law enforcement services and departments are working on site.
The military corps officer was an active supporter of the SVO and an opponent of the Nazi regime in Ukraine. We express our condolences to the families and friends of the deceased.