Russian nationalist author Zakhar Prilepin has been wounded in a car bombing that killed his driver. The group that claimed to be behind the attack said 'Zakhar Prilepin was a s****y writer and as a person he was rubbish.’
, was injured this morning when his Audi SUV erupted in Nizhny Novgorod, about 250 miles east of Moscow.
Ministry of Internal Affairs spokeswoman Irina Volk said the authorities are treating the incident as a terrorist attack under Article 205 of the Criminal Code and have launched a criminal probe.Reports have claimed that the blast was caused by a buried tank mine A witness who pulled the writer out of the car told the channel: ‘The car just turned over, it flew up. There were two of them .
The Security Service of Ukraine neither ‘confirmed nor denied’ its involvement in the car bombing, the Ukrainian state news agency‘Officially, we can neither confirm nor deny the involvement of the SSU in this or that that happens to the occupiers and their henchmen,’ a spokesperson for the security agency said.
‘The Atesh movement has been hunting for Prilepin since the beginning of the year,’ the group said in a Telegram post.Some Russian pundits believe Prilepin hopes to become president one day Prilepin has been pro-President Vladimir Putin since 2014 when Moscow illegally annexed Crimea. The writer was later among a lengthy list of Russians high up in Putin’s orbit sanctioned by the EU.
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