Moscow has blamed Ukrainian security services and supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for the killing of a prominent Russian ultranationalist blogger in a St Petersburg café. Kyiv and Navalny’s supporters have denied the allegations. But the attack on a figure with close links to the Wagner Group has underscored blowback threats from the war in Ukraine.
Street Food Bar No. 1 on Universitetskaya Embankment right by the Neva River was once considered a cool café for tourists visiting St Petersburg, the western Russian city also known as “the Venice of the North”. But that was long before it all blew up on Sunday evening.
