He was in prison and fought for the "DPR": what is known about the murdered war correspondent Tatarsky

On Sunday, April 2, Russian war correspondent and blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was blown up in the "Street Bar" cafe in St. Petersburg. The man was one of the most famous military bloggers of the Russian Federation.

Vladlen Tatarsky is the pseudonym of Ukrainian Maxim Fomin. UAportal has collected the main information from the biography of the traitor and collaborator.

Fomin was born in Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, in 1982. He worked as a miner, then went into business.

In 2011, the man committed a robbery at a bank, for which he was convicted and served his sentence in a penal colony in Horlivka. After the outbreak of the war in Donbas in 2014, Fomin was released from the colony and joined the "militia" of the so-called "DPR".

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Later, he was imprisoned again, as there were no legal grounds for his release from prison. Later, Oleksandr Zakharchenko pardoned Fomin, allowing him to fight.

He served in the Vityaz regiment, then in the intelligence unit of the 4th LPR Separate Mechanized Brigade (unit 74347) and the Vostok battalion (2015) (unit 08818). In 2019, he resigned from the army and took up blogging, going to work in Moscow.

Fomin positioned himself as a writer, publishing his autobiographical novel "Running" in 2020.

After February 24, 2022, he actively covered the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine, becoming one of the most popular war correspondents in Russia. However, since the fall of 2022, he has been actively criticizing the failures of the occupiers at the front.

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