"Prilepin underwent another operation today. Doctors hope that it will be the final serious surgical intervention, "he said.
Nikitin said that the operation was carried out by a team of doctors from the Federal Research Medical Center together with Nizhny Novgorod doctors. According to him, everything went normally.
"Zakhar is holding on like a real fighter, it is immediately clear that he is an active officer! Already conscious," the governor added.
On May 6, it became known that Prilepin's car was blown up in Nizhny Novgorod.
In the car, in addition to Prilepin, was Alexander Shubin, he died, the writer himself was injured.
On May 11, the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said that the Ukrainian special services were behind the assassination attempt on Prilepin.