– According to preliminary reports, one person was killed in the explosion, and the writer Zakhar Prilepin, who was in the car, was injured, the Ministry of the Interior in Moscow said on Saturday morning. The Russian news agency Interfax reports that he will be transferred to a hospital in Moscow for treatment. The condition is described as “serious”. The assassination of Zakhar Prilepin took place in Nizhny Novgorod. The city is 40 miles east of Moscow. The driver was killed when the car bomb went off, writes the Russian broadcaster RIA. Photo: ANASTASIA MAKARYCHEVA / Reuters Atesh has claimed responsibility for the attack. They are a group consisting of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars. Whether Atesh is actually behind the attack has not been confirmed. They have previously claimed responsibility for attacks on Russian targets. – He did not drive alone, but with a surprise on the underside of the car, writes Atesh on the messaging service Telegram. Blaming the West A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine of carrying out the attack. At the same time, she blamed Western countries. – The facts have become reality: Washington and NATO have fostered yet another terrorist cell – the regime in Kyiv, writes Maria Zakharova on Telegram. She claims the United States and Great Britain are directly responsible for the attack. No evidence was presented for the claim. A person has been arrested, suspected of the assassination. Famous writer and front fighter 47-year-old Prilepin is one of Russia’s best-known writers. In 2018, he published the critically acclaimed book “Klosteret”, which was also translated into Norwegian. In Russia, Prilepin has distinguished himself as an ardent supporter of Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine. From 2016 to 2018, he fought alongside pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. In January, he signed up for service in the Russian National Guard to fight again in Ukraine. Zakhar Prilepin has been an ardent supporter of the war in Ukraine. Photo: JOEL SAGET / AFP Prilepin was the leader of the national conservative party “For Truth”, until it was merged with “A Just Russia” in February 2021. The party supports Putin’s regime. More attacks The assassination attempt on Prilepin is not the first time Putin’s supporters have been hit. A month ago, the war blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed when a bomb went off at a cafe in St Petersburg. Military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed when a bomb went off near the cafe he was in. Photo: MAXIM SHEMETOV / Reuters Last August, Russian nationalist Darja Dugina was killed by a car bomb in Moscow. She was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a right-wing nationalist academic and ideologue. Russia has accused Ukraine of being behind these killings. The Ukrainian authorities have rejected this.
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