We all laughed when Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was blown up in Yevgeny Prigozhin’s restaurant in St Petersburg. There was the gift delivered during his personal event, he proudly held the gift up, this was all caught on video, the next scene was the blast and that was the end of Tatarsky. This is like a scene out of the Pink Panther movies with Inspector Clouseau receiving a gift from Keto and the ensuing fight scene.

Vladlen Tatarsky was a convicted bank robber who had spent time in prison, he apparently broke out of prison to fight with the Russian backed Donetsk People’s Republic before being captured and returned to prison. So why was military blogger Vladen Tararsky so despised? What did Tarasky do and say that made him a target? “We’ll defeat everyone, we’ll kill everyone, we’ll rob everyone we need to. Everything will be the way we like it.”

This put a genuine fear into Russian military bloggers, getting the Kremlin’s message out is now a little harder. A whole cohort of military bloggers has determined this is just now not worth their lives. There is a Russian resistance, we know they are targeting infrastructure such as oil refineries and fuel depots, rail freight and rail lines, and military assets such as airfields. The anti-Putin forces are gaining momentum. I am interested to watch the Russian resistance target further Russian bloggers and pro-war propagandists.