The explosion of the car in which the writer Zakhar Prilepin was located occurred in the village of Pionersky, Nizhny Novgorod region, a source told RT. "The question is in the detonation...

maybe there was someone nearby," the source said. Medical workers reported that the writer was hospitalized with a leg wound. According to TASS, the man was injured. The writer was evacuated by helicopter to the hospital. The driver died, according to RIA Novosti.