Petersburg, according to Russian state news agency TASS. Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in an explosion at a cafe in St. They are really the only ones who are monitoring what’s happening on the frontline,” Candace Rondeaux, the director of the Future Frontlines program at the New America Foundation, told CNN. “Military bloggers in Russia today provide a very cloudy service but a service nonetheless. Pro-Kremlin commentators such as Tatarsky, who are sometimes called “voenkory” for “war correspondents”, have filled some of this information vacuum. Foreign media is blocked and most opposition journalists are either in jail or out of the country. Any coverage of the conflict on Russian state media is tightly controlled by the Kremlin. Russia forced the closing of the last of its remaining independent media shortly after invading Ukraine in February 2022. While he was a prominent voice within the ‘milblogger’ universe – with more than 500,000 subscribers to his Telegram channel – he was certainly not the only one with influence. He was known for his support for the war on Ukraine and the boss of the Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin – as well as his occasional but harsh criticism of Moscow’s battlefield failures. Petersburg cafe where he was appearing as a guest of a pro-war group. Tatarsky – whose real name was Maxim Fomin – died on Sunday in an explosion at a St. The killing of Vladlen Tatarsky has put a spotlight on the murky world of Russia’s pro-invasion military bloggers and the outsized role they play in Moscow’s propaganda machine.
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