A Russian writer and ex-combatant, injured in an attack 400 kilometers from Moscow

the russian writer Zajar Pripelinof ideology nationalisthas been injured detonate an explosive under the car in which he was traveling. Pripelin, 47, only has injuries to both legs, while his driver died instantly. The event occurred in a Nizhny Novgorod highway400 kilometers from Moscow.

Among the hypotheses about Causes of the attack, the possibility of a revenge of the ukrainian resistance, according to sources from Russian security agencies, which are investigating the event. He Research Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case. The Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedevhas stated that “these crimes they will not go unpunished“emphasizing that “do not prescribe”.

Hours after the attack, Alexander PermyakovUkrainian citizen has been detained as suspicious. “In the region of Nizhny Novogorod Police officers detained a man they were chasing who may have been involved in the explosion of the car in which Zakhar Prilepin was traveling,” Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman said. Irina Volk. According to the Russian news agency TASS the individual would have been born in 1993 and had a criminal record.

Zajar Pripelin fought in the Donbas conflict between 2016 and 2018, as well as in the current war in Ukraine. Is about one of the writers most read in Russia and grabbed headlines in 2016 when he revealed that he had moved with his family to Donbas, where he was even deputy commander of a special operations battalion created at his initiative who was fighting against the Ukrainian army.

The nationalist was then adviser to the leader of the self-proclaimed people’s republic of Donetsk, Alexander Zakharchenkoassassinated in 2018, who granted him the rank of major.

Prilepin, who fought in the mid-1950s 90’s of the 20th century as well Chechnya and dagestanwas the leader of the ultranationalist party ‘For the truth’ that he created in 2020 and that he merged in 2021 with ‘Fair Russia’. In the current Russian military campaign in Ukraine, the writer signed a contract with the National Guard and went to the front, as revealed last January by his press secretary to the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.

The writer was a member of the outlaw National Bolshevik Party. Then he supported the extra-parliamentary opposition in their demand for the resignation of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. However, he publicly announced that he stopped criticizing the Kremlin after the annexation of Crimea in March 2014.

Accusations from the Kremlin

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskovdid not want to comment on the attack, stating that It’s too soon to know who’s behind. However, the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharovahas stated on his telegram channel that “Washington and NATO fed another international terrorist cell: the kyiv regime”.

Vice President of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedevhas denounced that “we are dealing with a cowardly enemy that seeks to intimidate us. Choose as your target the true patriots of our country, those who dedicate all their forces to the service of the country and they are doing everything possible to bring victory over the Ukrainian neo-Nazism“.