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Added on the 02/04/2023 21:41:26 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Russia has named a suspect in Sunday's bombing at a cafe in Saint Petersburg. A prominent military blogger was killed in the blast, and 25 others injured. No one has claimed responsibility, but Russia's foriegn ministry is lashing out at Western governments for failing to react to the attack. FRANCE 24's Charlotte Hughes and Jennie Shin tell us more.
Russian police stand outside the front entrance to the Wagner mercenary group's St Petersburg offices, with a large police van also visible. Wagner's leader Yevgeny Prigozhin vowed to overthrow Russia's military leadership and claimed control of a key military headquarters in the south of the country. IMAGES
Hundreds of Muscovites came to the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in the Russian capital on Saturday to pay their last respects to military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky.
People gather in Moscow ahead of the funeral of a high-profile military blogger and staunch supporter of Moscow's assault on Ukraine, Vladlen Tatarsky, who was killed an explosion at a cafe in Russia's second city, Saint Petersburg, on April 2nd. IMAGES
"It was like a slow-motion movie," says one witness of an explosion at a cafe in Russia's second-largest city of Saint Petersburg that killed a prominent Russian military blogger and left 25 others injured. The Ria Novosti agency, quoting a source close to the inquiry, said "a girl" had supposedly dropped off a package with a "figurine" inside intended for the blogger.
A number of London police have stepped back from firearms duties after a fellow officer was charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a young black man, a force spokesman said Sunday. Police in Britain are not routinely armed and the small proportion who are authorised to carry guns are highly trained.