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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(129,759 posts)
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 04:50 PM Apr 2023

Russia blames Ukraine for bomb that killed military blogger

Russian authorities blamed Ukrainian intelligence agencies on Monday for orchestrating a bombing at a St. Petersburg cafe that killed a Russian military blogger who fervently supported Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, and they arrested a suspect.

Ukrainian authorities did not directly respond to the accusation, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in reference to the attack that he doesn’t think about events in Russia, and a senior Ukrainian official earlier described the bombing as part of Russia’s internal turmoil.

Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, was killed Sunday as he led a discussion at the cafe on the banks of the Neva River in the historic heart of Russia’s second-largest city, officials said. Tatarsky, who had filed regular reports from the front lines in Ukraine, was the pen name for Maxim Fomin. He had accumulated more than 560,000 followers on his Telegram messaging app channel.

The bombing, which also wounded more than 30 other people, was the latest attack inside Russia on a high-profile pro-war figure. Last year, a nationalist TV commentator was assassinated when a bomb exploded in her SUV outside Moscow.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-vladlen-tatarsky-cafe-explosion-1894f6b0d20b19ed78a9407c04f83707

Really now. When Pooty's hemorrhoids are irritating him it's Ukraine's fault.

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Russia blames Ukraine for bomb that killed military blogger (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2023 OP
Putin knows the truth. This was a signal to him that his days are numbered. patphil Apr 2023 #1
Russia probably blames Ukraine for all of the flying lessons that high ranking Russian officials Chainfire Apr 2023 #2

patphil

(8,351 posts)
1. Putin knows the truth. This was a signal to him that his days are numbered.
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 05:16 PM
Apr 2023

This wasn't done by Ukrainians, but the Ukrainian war was the reason it happened.
Homegrown terrorists starting to awaken in Russia.

 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
2. Russia probably blames Ukraine for all of the flying lessons that high ranking Russian officials
Mon Apr 3, 2023, 05:50 PM
Apr 2023

have been getting since the war started too. I think that if Putin is blaming Ukraine, that probably means that it was a Russian police operation. Putin suffers from the same veracititis that Trump does.

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