Russian investigators said on Saturday that the suspect arrested after an explosion that injured Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin and killed his driver was “acting on instructions” from Ukrainian agents, AFP reported.
“Investigators of the Investigative Committee are checking the involvement of Oleksandr Permyakov in the attempt on Zakhar Prilepin,” the committee reported, adding that “during the interrogation, he stated that he acted on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services.”
The famous Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin was injured in a car bomb explosion in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on Saturday. 47-year-old Prilepin was wounded in both legs and is now hospitalized, and his driver died as a result of the explosion. According to the initial data of the investigation, an explosive device was planted under Prilepin’s car.
Who is Zakhar Prilepin and his connection with Ukraine
A personality of the Russian literary scene, translated in many countries, Zakhar Prilepin has been working with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, in whose ranks he fought, since 2014, writes AFP. Moreover, according to EFE, in 2016 Prilyepin and his family moved to Donbas, a region in the east of Ukraine, where he even became the commander of a special purpose battalion created on his initiative, which fought against the Ukrainian army.
He became an adviser to Oleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed DPR, who was killed in 2018, and who awarded him the rank of major.
Prilepin, who also fought in Chechnya and Dagestan in the 1990s, was the leader of the ultra-nationalist party For Truth, which he created in 2020, which merged with the Just Russia formation in 2021.
The writer was also a member of the banned National Bolshevik Party. Later, he supported the extra-parliamentary opposition, which demanded the resignation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, after Russia’s illegal annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea to Putin in March 2014, Prilepin publicly stated that he would no longer criticize the Kremlin leader.
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