The “National Republican Army” has taken the responsibility for the explosion in Saint Petersburg that killed “war correspondent” Vladlen Tatarsky, Rospartizan Telegram channel reports.
“We set up and carried out the act that happened on 2 April 2023. It targeted a group of Z-activists and personally the notorious warmonger and war propagandist, war criminal Maxim Fomin, known as Vladlen Tatarsky. This action was prepared and carried out by us independently, and we had no connection with and no assistance from any foreign structures, let alone special services,” the statement says.
The Saint Petersburg part of the organisation says the attack did not target civilians, and that “everyone who suffered from the attack are active supporters of the war”.
Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian MP who is now sided with Ukraine, claimed in the summer of 2022 that the “National Republican Army” was behind the assassination of Daria Dugina, the daughter of Alexander Dugin, the idea-monger of the “Russian world” doctrine.