Outstanding Russian nationalist injured in automobile bombing that kills driver
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outstanding Russian nationalist has been left wounded in a automobile bombing that killed his driver.
Zakhar Prilepin has been rushed to hospital after his Audi Q7 turned engulfed in flames on Saturday in a village within the Nizny Novgorod area, about 250 miles east of Moscow.
Russia has blamed the assault on each Ukraine and the West. The nation’s state Investigative Committee is treating the explosion as an act of terrorism.
Russian nationalist Zakhar Prilepin
/ ReutersThe committee launched {a photograph} displaying the white automobile mendacity overturned on a observe subsequent to a wooden, with a deep crater beside it and fragments of steel strewn close by.
An inside ministry spokeswoman mentioned a suspect had been arrested. Security sources informed state news company TASS that that they had discovered an condo within the Moscow area the place they consider the bomb was assembled.
Prilepin, a novelist who’s an outspoken champion of Russia’s battle in Ukraine and has boasted of participating in navy fight there, was the third outstanding pro-war determine to be focused by a bomb since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour in February 2022.
Russia has blamed Ukraine for the deaths of journalist Darya Dugina and battle blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in two earlier assaults, however Kyiv has denied involvement. There was no instant phrase from Ukraine on the most recent incident.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram: “The fact has come true: Washington and NATO fed another international terrorist cell – the Kyiv regime.”
She mentioned it was the “direct responsibility of the US and Britain”, however supplied no proof to assist the accusation.