Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky He is proud of the statuette with which he has just been awarded. They deliver it to you He unwraps it and sets it by his side. A few moments later, the device explodes.

The video that can be seen on these lines contains the first images of the interior of the Saint Petersburg cafeteria where the attack took place. deadly attack in which the blogger died and ten other people were seriously injured.

The explosive device, with 200 grams of TNTwas inside a statuette that a woman gave to the blogger and that was activated by remote control.

The Russian President, Vladimir Putinhas posthumously awarded Vladlen Tatarsky, alias of Maxim Fomin, with the Order of Valor “for courage shown in the performance of his professional duty.”

The attack against the pro-Russian military blogger is reminiscent of the one who killed in August Daria Dugin, daughter of the leader of the Neo-Eurasianist Movement, Alexandr Dugin, considered close to the Kremlin. Then, Putin also posthumously decorated the assassinated with the Order of Courage.

Tatarski, 40, was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine and fought in 2014 on the pro-Russian side against the kyiv army.

The blogger, who had more than 560,000 subscribers On his Telegram channel, he rose to fame in September 2022 when, after attending a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, he assured: “We will defeat them all, we will kill them all, we will rob everyone we want” .