Russian military commissar Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) has died in an explosion at a Cyber Z Front debate club party at the Street Bar on Universitetskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg. Information about his death was confirmed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, transmits CASS. The Eastern Herald has gathered everything that is known about what happened.
suffered 25 people including a child. 19 injured were hospitalized, four are in serious condition. Criminal record excited under the article on murder committed in a generally dangerous manner (part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of Russia).
Heads and employees of the Main Directorate of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia have left for St. Petersburg, according to the message of St. Petersburg. estimate CASS. “The work of solving the crime has been taken under control by the leadership of the ministry”, – informed RENTV.
The St. Petersburg prosecutor’s office is also investigating the fact of the explosion. “At the scene of the incident is St. Petersburg prosecutor Viktor Melnik,” reported in his telegram channel.
The governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, took over the coordination of the work of special services and assistance to victims, the press service of the city administration said.
According to preliminary data, an explosive device stuffed with striking elements was placed in a figurine – a bust of Vladlen Tatarsky, which was brought in the evening and presented to the military commander by a certain girl.
Girl with a figurine
RIA News transmits that this girl knew Tatarsky and the figure had already been checked. One of the people present at the party said Telegram channel “Mash on the Moika” that the military commissar clearly recognized the girl with the statuette and invited her to sit next to him, after which they “exchanged jokes.”
About the fact that the figurine exploded in the hands of Tatarsky, said REN TV eyewitness to the incident Rodion Varezhkin. TV channel published and a video of the event, which shows a gift for the military commander. The girl who introduced him is not in the frame.
Baza telegram channel with a link to its source writing that the explosion was radio-controlled and directed, and that the explosive device was inside a plaster figure. fontanka publish the story of a girl who was present at the party and witnessed the communication between Tatarsky and the donor of the statuette:
“There was a certain Nastya sitting at the table alone, she says, I’m an artist, I wanted to do the heroics of the NWO, but it’s not easy. That’s why I made your bust so far only. He’s in the closet. He goes there, takes a big box, gives it to her, there is something golden. He jokes – I hope you didn’t make me fat. Say thank you, then put. She sits in her place, spends about three minutes. Explosion, detonation, flames, everyone is running.”
Another cafe visitor too informed that the girl was called Anastasia. He heard her tell Tatarsky that she was at another meeting with him and gave him “either postcards or drawings”, and the military commissar “remembered her”.
Source at the Ministry of the Interior declared RBC that the explosion of the figurine is only one of the versions considered by the investigation. According to him, the epicenter of the explosion was at a height of 60 cm from the ground, the explosive device was without shells, and its power was 300-400 grams of TNT.
Shot published photo of a girl walking down the street with a box in her hands, and suggests that it could be the same “Anastasia” who gave the figurine to Tatarsky. According to the channel, a certain woman and two men with backpacks left the cafe two minutes before the explosion, and they are now wanted.
Security measures
In the “Cyber Z Front” club claim that in the cafe rented by them for the event “there was a terrorist attack” – despite the “certain security measures” adopted, which “turned out to be insufficient”.
“Now we are cooperating with law enforcement and hope that all those responsible will be punished. Unfortunately, we cannot tell you anything more at this time,” the club said in a statement. Telegram Channel Readovka complaints that “visitors to the cafe were neither examined nor searched, and that there were never any guards there”.
On the morning of April 2, a meeting with Tatarsky – but in a closed format – took place in the St. Petersburg bookstore “Foliage”. point of sale guide Remarks that the decision to close the meeting was not taken at random: “This format was chosen for security reasons, and, unfortunately, we were not mistaken. After all, today Vladlen has become a target for Ukrainian terrorists. He was our old friend, just like Dasha Dugina, who also played with us.
Evgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner PMC, could come to the evening meeting with Vladlen Tatarsky in a cafe, writing political scientist Konstantin Dolgov in his telegram channel, citing the information available to him. Formerly “Fontanka” informed that the cafe “Street-bar” (Street Food Bar #1), in which the events of the debate club took place, belongs to Prigozhin and was once called “Patriot”.
“But how could a man with a bomb walk through a cafe where they regularly hold z-meetings, which seems to belong to Prigozhin, and go straight to the stage?” — wonders Ksenia Sobchak in her telegram channel “The Bloody Lady”.
“Prigozhin’s main headquarters on Lieutenant Schmidt’s wharf (an inconspicuous pink building) is located exactly 150 meters from the site of the explosion”, noted former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleg Tsarev.
Who is Vladlen Tatarski
Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) was born on April 25, 1982 in Makeevka, Donetsk region. He became widely known after the start of a large-scale military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. On his Telegram channel, which has 567,000 subscribers, he regularly covered the course of hostilities on the Russian side.
On September 30, 2022, Tatarsky was present in the Kremlin during the signing ceremony of treaties for the accession of new territories to Russia and there recorded a video message to his subscribers with the words: “We will defeat everyone, kill everyone the world, steal everyone we need, everything will be as we wish.
At the same time, the blogger has been interested in the subject of the Ukrainian conflict since the Donbass war: in 2014, being a native of Makeevka (Donetsk region), he escaped from prison, where he was serving a sentence for an armed robbery . from one of the banks, and joined the DPR militia. Tatarsky wrote a book about these events called “Running”, which was published in 2020.
