The driver of the vehicle has died. Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk has reported that a man of Ukrainian nationality has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack.
He Russian nationalist writer And co-chairman of the centre-left party A just Russia – for the truth Zajar Prilepin has resulted injured When a bomb placed in his vehicle exploded this Saturday near the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod, who caused the death of his driver, identified as Alexander Shubin, a member of the Oplot Battalion of the Russian National Guard.
Representatives of the writer and politician confirmed that Prilepin was hospitalized with a leg injury with “minor fractures”. He is conscious and his life is not in danger.
According to Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk, “A man of Ukrainian nationality has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack”. Russian security sources have indicated to the official TASS agency that he is a Ukrainian citizen, born in 1993 with a criminal record, who has been tried for theft in his country.
The Russian Commission of Inquiry has described the attack on the writer, who fought in Donbas between 2016 and 2018 and is currently fighting in Ukraine after signing a contract with the National Guard, as a “terrorist act”, according to his spokesman. newspaper in January Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
prisoner exchange
Ukraine and Russia announced a prisoner swap this Saturday, consisting of the exchange of 45 Ukrainian soldiers in exchange for three Russian fighter pilots captured by Kiev troops.
The agreement, which does not correspond to the usual modality of “one by one”, has been reached after a “difficult negotiation”, according to Moscow, finally fruitful in the exchange announced this Saturday.
The head of the Ukrainian Presidency’s office, Andrei Yermak, has specified that the soldiers who have returned are 42 men and three women, all combatants during the Russian siege of the city of Mariupol, he disclosed on his Telegram account.
Russia and Ukraine periodically conduct exchanges of this kind, which have continued regardless of the development of the war between the two sides.
Russia shoots down two Ukrainian missiles in Crimea
Russian forces have claimed to have shot down two Ukrainian ballistic missiles in the Crimea region of southeastern Ukraine.
The antiaircraft guns shot down the Grom-2 missiles, as explained by a spokesman for the pro-Russian Crimean authorities, Oleg Kriuchkov, in statements broadcast on Telegram.
Earlier it was the top politician in the Crimean region, Sergei Aksionov, who reported the destruction of a projectile in the Crimean region.
Since August, Russian and pro-Russian forces have shot down several Ukrainian aircraft, mostly small drones, in the Crimean area, including the city of Sevastopol.
Source: EITB
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