Russian politician and author Zakhar Prilepin has been left injured after the automobile he was in blew up, in line with Russian media studies.
A strident supporter of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, Prilepin is a Russian nationalist author who led the political get together For Reality till it merged into A Simply Russia in February 2021.
Amid conflicting media studies as to the severity of his accidents, the Mash information outlet stated on its Telegram channel {that a} bomb had been planted below the hood of the Audi Q7 Prilepin was travelling in on Saturday morning. Newsweek has been unable to independently confirm the claims.
The politician was injured and his driver killed after the incident within the Nizhny Novgorod area, the publish added. Radio Free Europe reported Prilepin had been “significantly injured” whereas the the governor of Nizhny Novgorod, Gleb Nikitin, stated that his situation was “wonderful.”
Russian Overseas Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blamed the West for the incident and stated it was the “direct accountability of the U.S. and Britain.”
“The actual fact has come true: Washington and Nato fed one other worldwide terrorist cell— the Kyiv regime,” she stated.
Newsweek has contacted Russia’s international ministry for remark through e mail.
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