Putin’s War May Be Reaching a Pivotal Moment
A resident walks past a destroyed building following a C-300 missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on March 31.
Photographer: Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images
A bomb explosion that killed a pro-Kremlin military blogger who’d cheered on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine represents another twist in the war that may be entering a pivotal period.
The blast that killed Maxim Fomin in Vladimir Putin’s home city of St. Petersburg took place in a restaurant linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group that’s tried for months to seize the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.