On Saturday, May 6, Zakhar Prilepin's car was blown up in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The writer was in the car at that moment.

"The distance from Nizhny Novgorod is about 70 km. The forest road leads there alone. There is no asphalt there either. There is no cellular communication and the Internet, Zakhar was evacuated by helicopter to the hospital. At the site of the explosion, a crater, fragments. The question is in the detonation - maybe for the establishment of the car, maybe for some time after the establishment, maybe there was someone nearby, "the source told RT.

A criminal case has been opened on the fact of blowing up Zakhar Prilepin's car under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Terrorist Act"), the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said in a statement.

According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the explosion of the Audi Q7 car, in which Zakhar Prilepin was located, occurred at about 11:00 in one of the settlements of the Bor district of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

"As a result of the incident, a famous writer was injured, and his driver died. Currently, Zakhar Prilepin has been taken to a medical facility," the UK noted.

Forensic investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia and explosives specialists inspect the scene.

In hot pursuit, an alleged suspect in committing a crime was detained.

"In the Nizhny Novgorod region, the police, in hot pursuit, detained a man who may be involved in blowing up the car in which Zakhar Prilepin was," said Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk.

As the wife of the writer and public figure told RT, Prilepin is alive and receives the necessary medical care.

"Zakhar is hospitalized, alive, he is receiving medical care. There were two people in the car at the time of the explosion: he and his assistant Shubin," said Maria Prilepina.

Along with this, the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, said in his Telegram channel that Prilepin was "fine."

"Zakhar has minor fractures, but there is no threat to his health. Nizhny Novgorod doctors provide him with the necessary assistance," the report said.

In turn, TASS, citing medical workers, writes that the writer was hospitalized with a leg wound.

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His daughter was driving in the car with Prilepin, indicated in the WarGonzo project.

"The girl, fortunately, has already managed to get out of the car, unloading things, she was not injured. The incident occurred in the area, as a result of the explosion, Prilepin's personal security guard, a friend of the WarGonzo project with the call sign Evil, was killed. The team offers condolences to all the relatives of our comrade-in-arms. We pray for Zakhar. Doctors are now fighting for his life," the report says.

In turn, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the United States and Great Britain were directly responsible for the incident.

"The fact has happened: Washington and NATO members have nurtured another international terrorist cell - the Kiev regime. Bin Laden, ISIS, is now Zelensky with thugs," she said on Telegram.

Crimes of the Kyiv regime

On the evening of August 20, in the area of the village of Bolshiye Vyazyomy near Moscow on the Mozhaisk highway, an SUV exploded while driving, driven by journalist and political scientist Daria Dugina. The girl died on the spot.

According to the FSB, the explosives under the car were planted by a citizen of Ukraine, Natalia Vovk, who, immediately after the explosion, headed towards the state border with Estonia and crossed it in a car with her 12-year-old daughter.

On April 2, an explosion occurred in a café on the University Embankment in St. Petersburg, where military commander Maxim Fomin, known as Vladlen Tatarsky, held his creative evening. As a result of the terrorist attack, the military commander himself was killed, more than 50 people were injured.

The cause of the explosion was a statuette that Tatarsky was presented by a supporter of the "ideology of Navalny" Daria Trepova. By the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, she was placed under arrest until June 2, 2023.

As indicated in the FSB, the organizers of the terrorist attack in a café in St. Petersburg are the special services of Ukraine and their agents from the Russian opposition. It was also established that a citizen of Ukraine, Yuri Denisov, a member of a Ukrainian sabotage and terrorist group, was involved in the crime. He is on the international wanted list.

In addition, in March 2023, the FSB prevented an attempt on the life of a Russian businessman, chairman of the board of directors of the Tsargrad group of companies, Konstantin Malofeev. It was indicated that the agents of the Ukrainian special services intended to blow up an IED attached under the entrepreneur's car.

* "Islamic State" (IG, ISIS) - the organization is recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 29.12.2014.