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Pro-Kremlin novelist wounded, 1 dead in car bombing in Russia

Pro-Kremlin novelist wounded, 1 dead in car bombing in Russia

A outstanding pro-Kremlin Russian nationalist author was wounded in a automotive bombing that killed his driver on Saturday, Russia’s state news company Tass reported, citing emergency and regulation enforcement officers.

The incident involving the automotive of Zakhar Prilepin, a well known nationalist author and an ardent supporter of what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, befell within the area of Nizhny Novgorod, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow.

It is the third explosion involving outstanding pro-Kremlin figures because the begin of the struggle in Ukraine.

In August 2022, a automotive bombing on the outskirts of Moscow killed Daria Dugina, the daughter of an influential Russian political theorist also known as “Putin’s brain.” The authorities alleged that Ukraine was behind the blast.

Last month, an explosion in a restaurant in St. Petersburg killed a well-liked army blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky. Officials as soon as once more blamed Ukrainian intelligence businesses for orchestrating it.

Governor of the Niznhy Novgorod area Gleb Nikitin stated Prilepin suffered minor bone fractures and was receiving medical assist.

Russian news outlet RBC reported, citing unnamed sources, that Prilepin was touring again to Moscow on Saturday from Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk and Luhansk areas and stopped within the Nizhny Novogorod area for a meal.

Police are investigating the incident, and a legal probe has been launched on the cost of terrorist act. Interiori Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk stated a suspect has been detained.

Prilepin turned a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014, after Putin illegally annexed the Crimean peninsula. He was concerned within the battle in jap Ukraine on the aspect of Russia-backed separatists. Last 12 months, he was sanctioned by the European Union for his assist of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In 2020, he based a political social gathering, For the Truth, which Russian media reported was backed by the Kremlin. A 12 months later, Prilepin’s social gathering merged with the nationalist A Just Russia social gathering that has seats within the parliament.

A co-chair of the newly shaped social gathering, Prilepin gained a seat within the State Duma, Russia’s decrease home of parliament, within the 2021 election, however gave it up.

Leader of the social gathering Sergei Mironov referred to as the incident on Saturday “a terrorist act” and blamed Ukraine for it. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova echoed Mironov’s sentiment in a submit on the messaging app Telegram, including that the accountability additionally lies with the U.S. and NATO.

“Washington and NATO have nursed yet another international terrorist cell – the Kyiv regime,” Zakharova wrote. “Direct accountability of the U.S. and Britain. We’re praying for Zakhar.”

The deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, former President Dmitry Medvedev put the blame on “Nazi extremists” in a telegram he despatched to Prilepin.

Ukrainian officers have not commented on the incident.

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