2023-05-07 10:01:00
The writer is considered a supporter of the attack on Ukraine. According to official information, he woke up from an artificial coma.
The Russian writer Sachar, seriously injured in an attack Prilepin According to official information, he woke up from an artificial coma. “He is conscious, according to the doctors, his condition is stable, the mood is cheerful,” wrote the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, on his Telegram channel on Sunday.
Russia blamed Ukraine for the attack and spoke of a “terrorist attack”. The investigations have not yet been completed, the Foreign Ministry announced in Moscow on Saturday evening. But it is already clear from the materials that the new terrorist attack “was organized and carried out by the Kiev regime and is backed by Western curators”.
The 47-year-old Prilepin was seriously injured on Saturday morning when an explosive device attached to his car detonated. Its driver died. Prilepin is a staunch supporter of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. He’s fought there too.
Police arrested suspects
Police arrested a man born in 1993 as a suspect shortly after the explosion, which took place in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region east of Moscow. Nizhny Novgorod Governor Gleb Nikitin said that Prilepin had undergone surgery. He suffered multiple broken bones.
Prilepin held various positions before becoming a member of the OMON police unit. This took part in operations in Chechnya in 1996 and 1999. During this time he joined the National Bolsheviks, which have been banned as an anti-constitutional organization since 2005.
Prilepin now lives with his wife, two sons and two daughters in Donetsk in the partly Russian-occupied Ukrainian region of Donbass. He has been on an EU sanctions list since February 2022.
Ukrainian movement implied responsibility for the assassination
It wouldn’t be the first time that a war supporter in Russia has been the target of an assassination: just a few weeks ago, prominent military blogger Vladlen Tatarski died in an explosion in a St. Petersburg café. Last August, Darja Dugina – daughter of right-wing nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin – died near Moscow as a result of a car bomb detonation.
A Ukrainian movement called Atesh spoke up on social networks and indicated that it was behind the attack on Prilepin. The group, which describes itself as a partisan movement of ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, has claimed credit for several attacks in Russian-held Ukrainian territories in recent months. “The Atesh movement has been after Prilepin since the beginning of the year,” the text said. And further: “We had a feeling that sooner or later he would be blown up.” The credibility of the message could not initially be checked.
(APA/Reuters/TASS/dpa)
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