An attack targeted a protagonist of the Russian media who is one of the most active in supporting the intervention in Ukraine. We are talking about the writer Zakhar Prilepin, who was only injured by a bomb that partially destroyed his car, while his driver and bodyguard were killed.

The investigators have already announced that a man, arrested immediately after the attack, has confessed to being the author and to having operated on instructions from the secret services of Kiev. The suspect, identified as Alexander Permyakov, allegedly confessed to planting a bomb on the road Prilepin's car was to travel in a village some 400 kilometers east of Moscow, and blew it up with a remote device at passage of the car.

The crime under investigation is that of "terrorism". But Russian diplomacy has also called Ukraine's western allies into question: the US and Great Britain bear "direct responsibility" for the attack, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Kiev has denied any responsibility. Indeed, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak accused the Russians themselves of being behind the attack that took place in the village of Pionerskoye, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, where the writer was spending a few days of vacation in a family home.

His driver, Alexander Shubin, a 27-year-old Ukrainian from Lugansk who enlisted in the Russian National Guard, was killed.

(Unioneonline/ss)

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