Assassination attempt on Zakhar Prilepin Essentials

On the morning of May 6, a car was blown up on a highway in the Nizhny Novgorod region, in which there is a writer and co-chairman of the Just Russia – For Truth party Zakhar Prilepin. The fact that the driver died as a result of the accident and the writer was injured was the first to report, citing emergency services, from Russian news agencies.

RBC after the explosion, citing sources wrotethat Prilepin was returning to the Audi Q7 from the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. At the same time, Interfax in emergency services clarifiedthat he was on a family trip to the village of Pionerskoye, Nizhny Novgorod region.

“During the movement, the car in which Prilepin was located exploded. The driver was killed, the writer was injured and hospitalized,” the agency was told. They added that, according to preliminary data, an improvised explosive device was planted under the bottom of the car. The Ministry of Internal Affairs later confirmed the death of one person as a result of the explosion.

After the incident, a source close to the Ministry of Internal Affairs told RBCthat Prilepin was seriously wounded. However, the writer’s press service stated that he was “in order.” The same wording then used Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin on his Telegram channel.

Later, the head of the region clarified that Prilepin received “minor fractures”, there is no threat to his health, he is in “relative order”. By information REN TV source, the victim is in intensive care, his condition is assessed as serious, the issue of transporting the writer to Moscow is being decided. Telegram channel Mash also informedthat the politician was placed on the spot with splints and a bandage on his broken leg, then he was transported by helicopter to the Semashko Nizhny Novgorod Regional Clinical Hospital.

The deceased was an assistant and colleague of the writer, said Nikitin. According to REN TV, the driver was Alexander Shubin, a 27-year-old native of Lugansk, who had previously served in the LPR. According to the TV channel, the man accompanied the publicist during a business trip to the republic, where he served in the Oplot battalion of the National Guard.

After the incident in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the Interception plan was introduced, during which three police officers detained near the forest area previously convicted man born in 1993. The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that he would be taken to the police department, after which he would be handed over to the investigating authorities. The search for possible accomplices continues, added the official representative of the Russian Interior Ministry Irina Volk.

Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia aroused criminal case after blowing up the writer’s car under Art. 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorist act). According to investigators, the detonation of an explosive device in an Audi Q7 car occurred at about 11 a.m. in one of the settlements of the Borsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

“Forensic investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia and explosives specialists began to inspect the scene. Forensic examinations will be appointed, including biological, genetic, physico-chemical and explosives,” the report says.

Progress and results of the investigation of the criminal case took under the control of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia. The press service of the department reported that the first deputy prosecutor of the Nizhny Novgorod region had left for the scene.

Zakhar Prilepin, co-chairman of the A Just Russia – For Truth faction, went as a volunteer to the zone of a special military operation, party chairman Sergei Mironov said in January. Then he recalled that Prilepin had combat experience in the riot police. Since 2014, the co-chairman of the party has participated in hostilities as part of the DPR units, and has also delivered humanitarian aid to civilians in Donbass.