At the time of the explosion, Zakhar Prilepin, author and co-chairman of the Just Russia – Patriots – For Truth political party, was in the driver’s seat of his car, and the late Alexander Shubin was sitting in the passenger seat. Waking up from a medical sleep, Prilepin announced this on his Telegram channel.
“My dear person who served as my guardian angel for 8 years has died. Sasha “Bad” Shubin. Fearless soldier, friend and brother. They just gave me a phone call. There is confusion in the media. Sasha drove on the right in the passenger seat. I was driving a car. The explosion occurred under the wheel,” she wrote.
Prilepin added that he lost consciousness a few minutes after the explosion, “waking up and crawling towards the broken windshield”. The surrounding citizens rushed to help the person to be rescued from the burning car.
According to the politician, he really has both legs broken, one open.
“I asked him to bring the phone to me from the car and immediately gave all the orders because as soon as I woke up everything became clear. Then a neighbor gave me painkillers. [укол]”, – said Zakhar Prilepin.
The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region thanked Gleb Nikitin for promptly sending a helicopter to the scene of the explosion. “It’s 3 hours from there to the city and I’m not sure I can do it in my right mind. The helicopter flew in 16 minutes,” he said.
Also, Prilepin confirmed that he dropped his daughter from the car five minutes before the explosion.
“I was informed that there were two mines. But this man got scared and fled right after the first one exploded. In Prilepin’s post, everyone would have died if I had blown up the latter.
Finally, he thanked everyone for their prayers and words of support.
“Thanks to everyone who prayed, because it was still impossible to survive such an explosion,” said Prilepin.
He also promised to “complete the construction of a chapel in honor of St. Alexander in our village.” “I say to the demons: you shall not frighten anyone. God exists. We will win,” he concluded.
According to the Baza Telegram channel, plastid-laden anti-tank mines were used to blow up Prilepin’s car. The explosive device was placed under the engine of the car. Its mass was at least 3 kilograms in TNT equivalent.
At the site of the explosion near the village of Pionersky in Nizhny Novgorod, receivers continue to work. It was noted that an investigation was carried out for the presence of explosive objects and explosives at the scene.
On May 6, an Audi Q7 car with Zakhar Prilepin in the cabin exploded on a highway in the Borsky district of Nizhny Novgorod. Doctors took the author to the hospital, who was injured in both legs. Prilepin was returning from the Donbass to the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Alexander Permyakov, who is suspected of attempting to assassinate a politician, has confessed, according to Telegram channel 112.
The Donbass native admitted that a few years ago he was recruited by one of the Ukrainian special services and transferred information to them in exchange for money.
“The last task was to get a Russian passport and move. The next step is the liquidation of Zakhar Prilepin, ”the message says. The suspect buried anti-tank mines on the road to his home after following the author for several days. As a result, Prilepin’s car crashed into one of the mines.