Russian nationalist Prilepin suffers bomb attack, Moscow blames Ukraine

Forty-seven-year-old Prilepin is co-chairman of the Just Russia parliamentary party. He supported Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and joined the conflict in eastern Ukraine on the side of pro-Russian separatists. He unequivocally approves of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Moscow has blamed Kiev and the United States for the assassination, according to investigators, a man arrested near the site of the assassination admitted that he acted on the instructions of the Ukrainian secret service.

“I tell the demons, you scare no one,” he wrote Prilepin in a post describing the circumstances of the bombing.

The writer stated that the dead person is Alexandr Šubin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, under which the bomb exploded. According to Russian media, Šubin worked for Prilepin as a bodyguard and driver. The second bomb was in the car under the driver’s seat, but it did not explode, according to Prilepin. Five minutes before the explosion, from which Prilepin suffered fractures to both legs, including one open, the pro-Kremlin author dropped off his daughter.

More than 300 thousand people follow Prilepin’s channel on Telegram, he has a channel on the YouTube platform and he owns website, whose administrator wrote to her today that “Zachar is alive”. Reuters recalled that in 2019 he boasted of his “successes” in Ukraine, saying that his unit “killed large numbers of people.” “None of the field commanders have had the results that I have,” he said in a YouTube interview.