On Tuesday, Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB security service, accused Ukraine and its Western allies of operating a clandestine program that recruits Russian youth to carry out armed attacks.
According to The Bell, on Sunday evening, Russia’s best-known pro-war blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed in an IED explosion in a bar while delivering a speech in St. Petersburg. Official reports indicate that at least 30 people were also injured in the blast. The assassination of Tatarsky is expected to have greater repercussions than the murder of Daria Dugina last summer, who was the daughter of the nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin.