russian military blogger has been killed in an explosion at a cafe and st petersburg, russia. here is new video showing the aftermath. several others were injured in the blast. that s according to russian state media . the explosion also caused the building s facade to collapse. cnn s matthew chance is in russia. matthew what are you learning? wow. i mean, you know you can see the pictures there. there s a police cordon all around that cafe in st petersburg, where there was an explosion inside, and it is killed, one of the country s most prominent pro war military bloggers. his name is vlad lynn to task. at least that s what he goes by, and his blog he s got his real name is something else called maxim farming, but that s that s what his blogs called that s. that s the name under which he writes and he is well known in russia has got more than half a million followers on his channel, his telegram channel and is well known for being very aggressive, very pro war he wants in
interior ministry, saying that that that s what they re looking into at this point, and there s certainly there s video, and there s been eyewitnesses giving accounts of this figure. vlad lynn tartasky is the sort of pen name that he had. his real name is maxine forming mandatory isse, russian pro war military blogger. inside that cafe. you can look at the devastation on the screens right now. that s obviously the aftermath of the explosion and at the moment russian health officials are telling us that as well as the one person dead vladan tartasky. there s 25 injured. 19 of them are in hospital, six of them in a very grave condition, according to the russian health ministry. tartasky mandatory isse figure very popular figure inside russia in the sense that his telegram channel has more than half a million million followers, he s one of the country s most prominent military bloggers. he came to notoriety last year when in september he was in the halls of the kremlin, and he p
award or trophy or statue is indeed what exploded. sounds like that s what you re reporting. um you know, the i guess. yeah, the sequence of events before he actually received it, who might be responsible for this might be traced that way. obviously. yeah i mean, already the investigators, the police, the state media that s covering us, of course, are saying that there s a finger of suspicion has pointed towards the woman who presented tartasky with this with this statue, although that s not been confirmed at this point, but i m looking at these pictures we can see now that big flash the devastation it s called. it s caused and you know, i ve seen video from inside the cafe as well. don t know whether we ve got that, but it was a very crowded event. and so we re seeing these reports that vlad lynn tartasky has been killed and 19 others injured, but i mean, i don t there could well be very more more. people
interior ministry, saying that that that s what they re looking into at this point, and there s certainly there s video, and there s been eyewitnesses giving accounts of this figure. vlad lynn tartasky is the sort of pen name that he had. his real name is maxine forming mandatory isse, russian pro war military blogger. inside that cafe. you can look at the devastation on the screens right now. that s obviously the aftermath of the explosion and at the moment russian health officials are telling us that as well as the one person dead vladan tartasky. there s 25 injured. 19 of them are in hospital, six of them in a very grave condition, according to the russian health ministry. tartasky mandatory isse figure very popular figure inside russia in the sense that his telegram channel has more than half a million million followers, he s one of the country s most prominent military bloggers. he came to notoriety last year when in