Zakhar Prilepin, a prominent Russian novelist and supporter of Russia’s war in Ukraine, was injured in a deadly car bombing in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod oblast on Saturday.
Prilepin said Sunday that he broke two legs in the attack, and his driver was killed by the blast. Moscow blamed the bombing on Ukraine’s intelligence services and said the US was also responsible.
“Responsibility for this and other terrorist acts lies not only with the Ukrainian authorities, but with their Western patrons, in the first place, the United States,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Russian authorities claim a suspect detained for the bombing has admitted to working for Ukrainian intelligence. So far, Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, has not commented on the incident.
Prilepin was the third prominent Russian supporter of the war in Ukraine to be targeted in a bombing since Russia launched its invasion last year. Last month, Vladlen Tatarsky, a blogger and war correspondent, was killed in a cafe bombing in St. Petersburg.
In August 2022, Darya Dugina, daughter of the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, was killed in a car bombing outside Moscow. The New York Times has reported that the US believes the Ukrainian government was behind Dugina’s killing.
According to RT, Prilepin is known as a hawk in Russia, as he has called for all of Ukraine to be annexed by Russia. He is a military veteran who fought with the Donbas separatists in the civil war that was sparked by the US-backed coup in Kyiv in 2014. Earlier this year, Prilepin enlisted in the Russian National Guard.
Within two years Ukrainian terrorism will be annihilated together with Ukrainian state.
We need to look out for a (red flag) incident against Lithuania, Poland, Romania, ….
Agree. Whenever wars are not going well, adrenaline rush is needed to catch populace iff guard and escalate confrontation.
However, there is a slight problem. US will not enter the war in Europe, Russia is not interested in cinquering Europe as Hitler was. Russia cares only about a slew if problems in Ukraine. Poland will not go into war, and Us knows it. This anti-Russia posturing is great for as long as brings in money and is cost free. There is zero chance Poles can be convinced to fight for US/UK. Small Baltics even less.
In Ukraine, majority does not want war, and men are ordered to fight. Recruitment is often cknducted at bus stops orr train stations.
Ukraine is winning by the virtue of Russia doung nothing. One contract group is fighting in Bakhmut. Nothing else. All waiting for Ukraine to start offensive.
This is through & through a Washington v Russia war. The first phase, Ukraine, is virtually over. The while the chiefs have been gaming the next phase, which will not be a mechanized ground war, but keyboard and monitor war operating lily pad missile installations and GPS on the NATO front from Finland to Turkey. All that’s needed is a “Pearl Harbor” for “legal” cover.
A Ukrainian official just called the cafe bombing a legitimate target, which one can only conclude what the West deems “terrorism” is only when other people do it but not when we are behind those engaged in the exact same activities.