In the Nizhny Novgorod region, an Audi Q7 car exploded, in which the writer Zakhar Prilepin was. His driver-guard – a Ukrainian citizen with the call sign “Evil” – died at the scene, and Prilepin himself was hospitalized with a leg injury, transmits TASS in reference to doctors. Russian media has gathered everything that is known about what happened right now.
Employees of the main directorate of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, forensic investigators of the central office of the investigative commission and specialists of the forensic center of the TFR went to the scene . In the departement reported that a criminal case had been opened on the fact of the explosion, but the article was not specified. In the Nizhny Novgorod region introduced plan “Interception”, the police stop the cars to check the documents and inspect the trunks. At the entrance to the village of Bor exposed roadblocks, traffic is difficult.
The state of Prilepin
Information about Prilepin’s condition is contradictory. His press officer Elizaveta Kondakova informed Russian media that the writer is “agree”. Similar statement did governor of Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin in his telegram channel, subsequently specifying that “Zakhar has minor fractures, but there is no threat to his health”, and “the doctors of Nizhny Novgorod are providing him with the necessary assistance”.
BAZA telegram channel
Channel Ni Mash writing that “the writer is conscious and can speak, he has fractures in both legs”. RIA Novosticiting a law enforcement source mention on fractures and concussions.
“Zakhar Prilepin is conscious. He says he still doesn’t understand what happened.” complaints Shot with a link to your source.
Interfax transmits that the writer is in serious, but “transportable” condition, and that they plan to deliver him to Moscow by air ambulance helicopter. By information Mash, Prilepin was tied and bandaged on the spot, then transported by helicopter to the regional clinical hospital in Nizhny Novgorod. Semachko. REN TV clarifies that he is in intensive care.
Zakhar (Evgeny) Prilepin is a writer and publicist, author of the novels Pathologies, Sin and Sankya, former commander of the OMON unit, participant in the Chechen campaigns of 1996 and 1999, military operations in Dagestan and Donbass. Co-chairman of the Just Russia Party – For the Truth, one of the leaders of the Investigative Group for Anti-Russian Actions in the Field of Culture and Art (GRAD) of the State Duma.
Circumstances of the incident
By data Baza and War Gonzo, along with his daughter Prilepin, rolled over, but she was dropped off shortly before the explosion. “Luckily they managed to get the girl out of the car, after unloading her things she was not injured,” the War Gonzo telegram channel said. VChK-OGPU Channel informed that the writer took his daughter to relatives.
Poet Anna Dolgareva said Izvestia that Prilepin had just completed his business trip to the LPR, he served in the Oplot Battalion of the National Guard and was returning home to his family. Residents of the village near which the explosion occurred reported that the writer often came there with relatives, and on the eve of “walking with children and dogs”.
BAZA telegram channel
Source RIA Novosti declared that the explosion occurred “in a fairly remote place” about 80 km from Bor. Judging by photographs from the scene, the car exploded on an unmade country road in the countryside. On video recordings , made in the same place, it is clear that the car was torn in two parts and turned over. The explosion resulted in the formation of a funnel. By data Fired, the power of the explosive device was at least 2.5 kg of TNT.
Journalist Eduard Petrov declared that the bomb under the bottom of Prilepin’s car exploded remotely, programmed to fire at a certain point, taking into account GLONASS geolocation. “The explosion happened while the car was being unloaded. Zakhar, accompanied by the driver and his daughter, arrived this morning to visit their relatives.
Many knew where he lived, and anyone who wanted to follow his whereabouts followed him.
And they knew that was when he would be today,” Petrov argues, suggesting that Prilepin was not in the car at the time of the explosion, but beside it.
What versions are pushed
The main version of what happened is the revenge of Ukrainian militants, transmits TASS in reference to law enforcement. By data Interfax is looking for two men who allegedly followed Prilepin’s car for some time and may have planted an explosive device under the underside of his car.
“During a trip to the village of Pionerskoye, Prilepin made several stops on the highway. During one of them at his car, a security guard noticed and frightened strangers, they rushed into their car and drove off,” the agency quoted its emergency services source.
Residents of the nearest village said According to Baza’s source, the day before they saw an unknown man in the forest who “walked for a long time”. News.ru edition they reported that this stranger “was walking the streets with a big backpack” and “was sitting in a pit for some reason”.
At the same time, a certain Atesh group, which the Cheka-OGPU calls “military guerrilla movement”. His Telegram channel claims that members of the “movement” have been looking for the writer since the beginning of 2023. At the end of January, Atesh posted a message stating that “the order for Prilepin has been issued”. In October 2022 in the same channel affirmed that “Atesh” is responsible for the massacre of servicemen at a training ground in the Belgorod region. There was no confirmation of these statements and of the existence of the “movement” in general.
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