Moscow accuses kyiv and the West of being responsible for the explosion of Prilepin’s car

2023-05-06 13:25:27

Once again, Russia is pointing the finger at Ukraine and its Western supporters after an incident on its soil. Diplomacy on Saturday accused the United States, NATO and Ukraine of fomenting a “terrorist” attack against nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, injured in Russia in the explosion of his car.

“Washington, with NATO, has fed a new cell of international terrorism, the Kiev regime,” reacted the spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, on Telegram. “Direct responsibility of the United States and Great Britain. We pray for Zakhar,” she added.

In his car “with his family”

Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, backer of the Kremlin attack in Ukraine, was injured in the explosion of his car in Russia on Saturday and another person was killed, authorities said, amid a wave of attacks affecting the country.

“According to preliminary information, one person was killed by the explosion, and the writer Zakhar Prilepin, who was in the car, was injured,” the Interior Ministry’s press service said in a statement. , specifying that the incident took place in the region of Nizhny Novgorod (center-west). According to the Investigation Committee, Zakhar Prilepin was in his car “with his family” when the explosion occurred. Anonymous medical and security sources, quoted by Russian news agencies, claim that the writer was injured in the legs.

A veteran

A figure on the Russian literary scene, translated in many countries, the 47-year-old writer committed himself in 2014 to the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, alongside whom he fought.

Since then, this veteran of the Chechen wars in the 1990s has regularly traveled to eastern Ukraine and defended President Vladimir Putin and his massive offensive against Ukraine, launched on February 24, 2022.

Very present in the Russian media, he also actively participates in patriotic and traditionalist movements in Russia. In recent weeks, several attacks and bombings have hit Russia, such as the one that killed an influential military blogger, Vladlen Tatarskii (real name Maxim Fomin), in early April in a cafe in the center of Saint Petersburg.