The number of people injured in an explosion at a St. Petersburg cafe has risen to 30, according to Russian state media. The blast killed Vladlen Tatarsky, a prominent Kremlin-aligned military blogger. Follow our live coverage.
The number of people injured in an explosion at a St. Petersburg cafe has risen to 30, according to Russian state media. The blast killed Vladlen Tatarsky, a prominent Kremlin-aligned military blogger, and drew swift condemnation from Russia’s Foreign Ministry.Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed his counterpart in Moscow to immediately release Evan Gershkovich, the American journalist detained in Russia last week.
state media reported, citing the Russian Health Ministry. Six of them were in critical condition, the ministry said. Authorities have detained a woman from the city who is suspected to have been involved in , according to Interfax. Russian authorities said they were investigating Tatarsky’s death as a murder.In a statement, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticized Western governments for not condemning what she called an attack on “the freedom of journalism” and accused Kyiv of taking delight in Tatarsky’s death. Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential adviser, likened the explosion to spiders “eating each other in a jar.
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