One person killed in incident in Nizhny Novgorod region, according to Russia’s interior ministry
A prominent Russian nationalist writer has been wounded in a car bombing that killed his driver, an attack that Russia immediately blamed onZakhar Prilepin’s Audi Q7 was blown up in a village in the Nizny Novgorod region, about 250 miles east of Moscow, said the state investigative committee, which is treating the incident as an act of terrorism. It said Prilepin had been taken to hospital.
The novelist is an outspoken champion of Russia’s war in Ukraine and has boasted of taking part in military combat there. He is the third prominent pro-war figure to have been targeted by a bomb since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour in February 2022. The Ukrainian news site Unian ran an online poll asking readers who “in the pantheon of Russian scum propagandists” should be targeted next after Dugina, Tatarsky and Prilepin.
It is the second time this week that Moscow has accused Ukraine of carrying out terrorist attacks on behalf of the west, a narrative it appears to be pushing with increasing urgency but which Kyiv and Washington reject as baseless.
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