cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with dramatic video. we re going to show it to you right here showing the moment a bomb explodes in a cafe in st petersburg, russia, killing a well known russian pro war blogger. may have been presented to the blogger hidden inside a figurine. the dead blogger had more than a half million followers on his pro military blog, where he aggressively supported the war in ukraine openly criticized the setbacks. russian troops face there. cnn s matthew chance is in moscow for us. well jim. this explosion killed one of russia s most prominent pro war military bloggers, posting under the name of vlad lent tartasky. he accumulated more than half a million followers on his pro war telegram channel in which he was notoriously hard line enthusiastically, for instance, declaring on ukraine we will kill everyone. we will rob everyone we will have our way. and, of course, like other prominent russian military bloggers criticizing aspects a
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