Russian center-left writer and politician Zahar Prilepin injured in a sticky bomb attack

He Russian nationalist writer and co-chairman of the center-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, that has caused the death of its driver, identified as Alexander Shubin, a member of the Oplot battalion of the Russian National Guard.

Representatives of the writer and politician have confirmed that Prilepin is hospitalized with a leg injury with “minor fractures”. He is conscious and his life is not in danger.

As reported by the spokeswoman for the Russian Interior Ministry, Irina Volk, “a man of Ukrainian nationality has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the attack.” Sources from Russian security agencies have indicated to the official TASS agency that he is a Ukrainian citizen born in 1993 with a criminal record, who was tried in his country for robbery.

The Russian Investigative Committee has described the attack against the writer, who fought between 2016 and 2018 in Donbas and who was currently fighting in Ukraine after signing a contract with the National Guard, as a “terrorist act”, according to what his spokesman told the newspaper in January. Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

prisoner exchange

Ukraine and Russia have announced this Saturday a prisoner exchange consisting of the exchange of 45 Ukrainian soldiers in exchange for three Russian fighter pilots captured by kyiv forces.

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 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 has made known on his Telegram account.

Russia and Ukraine periodically carry out this type of exchange, which has continued regardless of the evolution of the war between the two parties.

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 anti-aircraft defenses have shot down the Grom-2 projectiles, as explained by a spokesman for the pro-Russian Crimean authorities, Oleg Kriuchkov, in statements broadcast on Telegram.

Previously, it was the top politician in the Crimean region, Sergei Aksionov, who had reported the destruction of a projectile in the Crimean area.

Since August, Russian and pro-Russian forces have shot down several Ukrainian aircraft, mainly small drones, in the Crimean area, including the city of Sevastopol.