The media reported the death of military commander Tatarsky in an explosion in a cafe in St. Petersburg

Military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin) died in an explosion in the “Street Bar” cafe on Universitetskaya embankment in St. Petersburg during a meeting of the “Cyber ​​​​​​Z Front” discussion club, a reported RIA News And CASS citing sources in the city’s emergency services.
According to TASS, at least 15 people were injured, and the power of the explosive device, according to law enforcement, exceeded 200 grams of TNT.
A bomb in a cafe could have been brought by a girl who gave a figurine to the military commander who was on stage as a gift, writing “Climb”. The fact that an explosive device was allegedly brought in the evening by one of the visitors, informed and RIA Novosti.
Telegram channel “112” complaints that the bomb was planted in advance in a cafe near where Tatarsky later sat. According to him data , suspected of having carried out an explosion, they are looking for a certain girl who was present at the party. “Now his identity is being established,” the channel said in a statement.
Information about the death of Tatarsky was one of the first published by the telegram channel “Vladlen says”. At 6:35 p.m. Moscow time, two posts from a user identified as Tanya were reposted there. The first post is a video of the scene of a man lying motionless on the ground in a pool of blood. The second message is an audio recording made by a female voice. Its author reports that “Vladlen is dead”.
Petersburg edition of “Fontanka” clarifies that the “Street Bar”, where the meetings of the discussion club “Cyber ​​​​​​Z Front” are held on weekends, belongs to the founder of PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin. In the announcement posted on the page of this club “VKontakte”, said that at a meeting on April 2, military commander Tatarsky will talk about his activities and share his impressions of working in the combat zone. Admission was free – and, according to eyewitnesses, about a hundred visitors gathered in the hall.