Russia names Ukrainian suspect over killing of war blogger

Blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in an explosin at a cafe (Anton Velikzhanin, M24/Moscow News Agency/AP)
Blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in an explosin at a cafe (Anton Velikzhanin, M24/Moscow News Agency/AP)

Russia’s top security agency on Thursday accused a Ukrainian man of involvement in a bombing that killed a well-known Russian military blogger at a St  Petersburg cafe.

Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, an ardent supporter of the war in Ukraine who filed regular reports on the fighting from the front lines, was killed on April 2 as he led a discussion at a riverside cafe in the historic heart of St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city.

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