HE popular Russian writer Zakhar PripelinIt took part in the conflict in Donbass between 2016-2018 and also took part in the war that Russia started in Ukraine last year, He was injured when a device exploded under the car he was traveling in in Russia.emergency services reported this Saturday to the official TASS agency.
“Author Zakhar Prilepin’s car exploded on the Nizhny Novgorod highway. He survived but was injured. He is conscious,” the source said.
Medical sources told TASS that Prilepin, 47, was injured in both legs and was taken to hospital.
But, the author’s driver died.
According to preliminary information, explosives were placed under the car.
According to sources from the Russian security agencies investigating the incident, the attack is considered to be revenge for the Ukrainian resistance.
Investigation Committee Russia opened a criminal case.
Prilepin is one of the most widely read writers in this country and made headlines in 2016 when he announced that he and his family had moved to Donbass. Ukrainian Army.
The nationalist then left.sesor of the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people’s republicAlexandr Zakharchenko was assassinated in 2018 and awarded him the rank of major.
In the current Russian military campaign in Ukraine, the writer signed a contract with the National Guard and went to the front, the press secretary explained to the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda last January.
Prilepin, who also fought in Chechnya and Dagestan in the mid-90s of the 20th century, was the leader of the ultranationalist For Truth party, which he founded in 2020 and merged with Just Russia in 2021.
writer banned National Bolshevik Party member. He later supported the extra-parliamentary opposition, which demanded the resignation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, he made public that he stopped criticizing the Kremlin after the annexation of Crimea in March 2014.
Among his novels ‘Sin’, Received the National Best Sellers award, one of the most prestigious in Russia in 2008, Sanka‘, ‘black monkey’ anyone ‘Purple’.