A known pro-Russian military blogger died and another 16 people were injured this Sunday in aan explosion in a cafeteria in St. Petersburg (Russia) that would have belonged to the businessman of the restoration and head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, according to the local newspaper Fontanka.

“The force of the explosive device was more than 200 grams of TNT (trinitrotoluene),” a source in law enforcement and security forces told the official TASS news agency. The Interior Ministry confirmed that 16 people were injured and that the person who died is the acquaintance war correspondent Vladen Tatarski.

According to Fontanka, in the cafeteria they usually organize on weekends acts of the Cybernetic Front Zwhich is believed to be associated with Prigozhin and which, according to the Institute for Strategic Study (ISD), is a troll factory which is being used to promote Russian propaganda on social media. The St. Petersburg newspaper indicates that, according to an announcement published on the VKontakte social network -the Russian Facebook-, one of these events was held this Sunday with Tatarski at the address where the cafeteria is located.

“It is known that previously the cafeteria belonged to Yevgeny Prigozhin”, he wrote on his Telegram channel. According to Fontanka, who cites witnesses to the explosion, one of the guests, an alleged woman, brought the war correspondent a figurine containing the explosive that exploded According to the independent media Meduza, Tatarski is a blogger and one of the military correspondents most famous who gained fame during the Russian military campaign in Ukraine. He was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine and fought in 2014 in the self-proclaimed people’s republic. He had more than 560,000 subscribers to his Telegram channel.