A Russian military blogger has been injured and his driver killed after their car was blown up, Russian state media reported, the latest attack on a pro-war figure
Zakhar Prilepin was hospitalized with a leg injury in the blast in the Nizhny Novgorod region, about 250 miles east of Moscow, TASS said. A criminal investigation has been opened and a man was arrested following the incident, authorities say, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Russian-appointed military-civilian administration in occupied Zaporizhzhia claimed in a post on Telegram that Prilepin’s daughter was with him at the time of the incident but was not injured.
He been appearing at the cafe as a guest of a pro-war group. Investigators allege that suspect Daria Trepova, acting at the behest of Ukraine, brought a “statuette filled with explosives” to the venue and handed it to Tatarsky. In August last year, Darya Dugina, the daughter of influential, ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin was killed by a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow.
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