Zakhar Prilepin, the Russian writer who championed the attack on Ukraine injured on Saturday in Russia in the explosion of his car, which killed his assistant, assured Sunday that he would not be intimidated. “Thank you to everyone who prayed, because it would have been impossible to survive such an explosion,” Prilepin said on Telegram, adding, “I tell the demons, you will not intimidate anyone. God exists. We will vanquish ".
He paid tribute to his driver Alexander Shubin who perished in the explosion. "My dear friend, my protector for eight years, is dead," he added. Zakhar Prilepin also said he dropped off his daughter "five minutes before the explosion".
Russia on Saturday accused Ukraine's Western "godfathers", and primarily the United States, of sharing responsibility for "terrorist attacks" committed on its soil according to it by Kiev, after the attack on explosive that seriously injured Zakhar Prilepin and killed his driver. Fierce support for the military offensive against Ukraine in which he claimed to be taking part, a successful writer translated to the West and then a champion of an ultra-nationalist line, Zakhar Prilepin was seriously injured in the explosion which practically destroyed his car Saturday near Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's third largest city, 400 km east of Moscow.
