Russian propagandist eliminated in St. Petersburg

2 April, 2023 Cafe after the explosion. Russia.

04/02/2023. A frame from a social media video

Russian propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky was killed (Real name - Maxim Fomin) in St. Petersburg, after an explosion in one of the cafes. Federal Russian media reported that the explosive device detonated in a cafe in a house on the University Embankment 25 on Vasilievsky Island in the center of St.

Petersburg. The power of the device exceeded 200 g in TNT equivalent, said the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation. It was filled with striking elements.

The cafe hosted Tatarsky's presentation. Emergency services said the explosive device detonated near the stage. Due to the explosion, windows flew out in the cafe, the fire did not happen.

Residents stayed in apartments.

The body of Vladlen Tatarskyi (real name - Maksym Fomin).

04/02/2023. Russia. A frame from a social media video

Russian media, citing law enforcement agencies, reported that the explosive device was allegedly in a statuette [that was presented to him].

As a result of the explosion, the propagandist of the invaders Vladlen Tatarsky, who worked against Ukraine, died. According to the latest data, 25 people were injured of varying severity, 19 were hospitalized. The condition of the six victims is assessed as serious.

St. Petersburg journalist Tatyana Lyubina and her friend Sergey Chaulin, coordinator of the Immortal Regiment movement in Tallinn, who was deported from Estonia in February, 2023, also were injured during the incident.

Sergey Chaulin. Photo from open sources

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a case of "murder in a generally dangerous way."

Fomin was born in 1982 in Makiivka, Donetsk region. Fomin, who used the pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky, was married twice and has a son Daniel, born in 2004. In 2011, a Ukrainian court sentenced him to 12 years in prison for armed robbery of a bank.

In 2014, during the Russian invasion of Donbas, Fomin escaped from prison and joined the DPR militants.

Vladlen Tatarskyi. Photo from social media

"In general, I escaped from prison, entered the militia. Then they put me back in.

I was returned to the zone.

But then Alexander Zakharchenko pardoned me," he said.