A police officer walks at the site of the explosion at the cafe in St.Petersburg, Russia, on Monday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Popkov, who runs a website on Russian partisans, denied this.<\/p>\n

‘I didn’t give any orders to Dasha [Daria],’ he said. ‘I didn’t introduce her to any Ukrainian intelligence officers.’<\/p>\n

He added: ‘I did not command the operation to destroy this Tatar ghoul, although I regret it\u00a0– he deserved what he got.<\/p>\n

‘It’s hard for me to command such things, if only because in Russia, in the clutches of this regime, my mother and younger brother live.<\/p>\n

‘Now the special forces are probably breaking into their house.’<\/p>\n

His site is ‘dedicated to chronicling the Russian partisan movement – the Russian armed struggle against [Vladimir Putin’s] insane regime.An absolutely legitimate fight.’<\/p>\n

Another propagandist Sergey Karnaukhov, a political analyst, TV host and former counterintelligence officer, expressed fear for the lives of other staunchly pro-Putin cheerleaders.<\/p>\n

He asked: ‘Which one of us will they kill next?And where? When leaving home?<\/p>\n

‘A quadcopter through a window? A car bomb? Pushed under an underground train? How many of us will be alive by the end of [war]?’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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