Russia blames Ukraine for bomb that killed military blogger

Ukrainian authorities did not directly respond to the accusation, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in reference to the attack that he does not think about events in Russia
Russia blames Ukraine for bomb that killed military blogger
Flowers and a poster with a photo of blogger Vladlen Tatarsky (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)

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 does not think about events in Russia, and a senior Ukrainian official earlier described the bombing as part of Russia’s internal turmoil.

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