Organization of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars claimed responsibility for the Prilepin assassination attempt

In the channel of movement of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars «Atesh» there was a record, which says that the Kremlin propagandist and TV presenter Zakhar Prilepinym hunted since the beginning of the year. 

Today, a car with Prilepinym was blown up in the village of Pioneer near Nizhny Novgorod. According to preliminary information, he was seriously injured and hospitalized, and his driver was killed. 

There are police posts in the area, security forces stop and inspect all vehicles, and buses are searched. Investigators and forensics went to the scene.

A few years ago, Prilepin publicly boasted that his unit had killed the most Ukrainian soldiers during 2014-2020. They said I was a fake field commander, and everything we did was outrageous. But no commander had such results in the destruction of the enemy as I did», - said Prilepin.

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