Russian nationalist writer wounded in automotive bombing, driver killed | World News

A distinguished Russian nationalist writer, Zakhar Prilepin, was wounded in a automotive bombing that killed his driver on Saturday, an assault that Russia immediately blamed on Ukraine and the West.

The state Investigative Committee acknowledged the writer’s Audi Q7 was blown up in a village inside the Nizny Novgorod space, about 400 km (250 miles) east of Moscow, which it was treating as an act of terrorism. It acknowledged he had been taken to hospital.

An inside ministry spokeswoman acknowledged a suspect had been arrested.

It was the third bomb assault on a primary pro-war decide inside Russia since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022. Russia has blamed Ukraine for the deaths of the two earlier targets, which Kyiv has denied. There was no speedy phrase from Ukraine on the latest incident.

Russian Worldwide Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram: “The precise truth has come true: Washington and NATO fed one different worldwide terrorist cell – the Kyiv regime.”

She acknowledged it was the “direct accountability of the U.S. and Britain”, nevertheless equipped no proof to help the accusation.

“We pray for Zakhar,” she acknowledged.

State data firm TASS quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as declining to comment inside the absence of information from investigators.

The corporate acknowledged former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev had despatched a telegram to Prilepin, calling the incident “a vile assault by Nazi extremists”.

Prilepin is a novelist who is called an outspoken supporter of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the place Moscow’s invasion is in its fifteenth month. He’s a prolific exponent of nationalist views, with better than 300,000 followers on Telegram and his private website and YouTube channel.

He fought for Russian proxy forces in jap Ukraine’s space of Donbas sooner than Moscow’s full-scale invasion closing 12 months and led a military unit there, boasting in a 2019 YouTube interview that his unit “killed people in big numbers”.

“These individuals are ineffective, they’re buried and… there are numerous of them,” he acknowledged. “Not a single unit among the many many Donetsk battalions had such outcomes. It was outrageous chaos what we did there… Not a single self-discipline commander had such outcomes as I had.”

Saturday’s incident adopted the assassination of a military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, in a restaurant in St Petersburg closing month. Ultimate August Darya Dugina, the daughter of a nationalist ideologue, was killed in a automotive bombing near Moscow.