The Russian Ministry of Inner Affairs stated the blast occurred in a village within the western Nizhny Novgorod area, in keeping with Russian information company Tass. It reported that an explosive gadget was positioned beneath the automobile and that Prilepin’s accidents required him to be hospitalized.

The author’s press secretary stated he was doing nice. “What precisely occurred is just not clear in the intervening time,” she instructed the Russian media outlet RTVI.

The Investigative Committee of Russia stated it had detained a person who allegedly “planted an explosive gadget” on Prilepin’s path.

“He fled from the scene however was detained by legislation enforcement officers as he was leaving the woods in one other locality,” the Investigative Committee stated on Telegram.

The person was appearing on orders from the Ukrainian particular companies, the assertion stated, however a Crimean partisan group claimed duty for the blast. Russia has occupied the Crimean Peninsula since illegally annexing it from Ukraine in 2014.

“The Atesh motion has been searching Prilepin because the starting of the 12 months,” the group stated on Telegram. “Our predictions all the time come true, as a result of we not solely converse, but additionally do,” it stated. The Washington Publish couldn’t independently confirm its claims.

The Kremlin stated it might not instantly touch upon the incident. “It’s unknown. We should first get info from legislation enforcement businesses,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov instructed Tass when requested whether or not Ukraine was responsible.

However Overseas Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blamed Kyiv’s Western backers. She described the obvious assault because the “direct duty of the USA and Britain.”

“Zakhar Prilepin was injured. Initially, we want him a speedy restoration,” she stated on the Russian community REN TV. “What we noticed was carried out by the so-called collective West.”

Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak instructed The Washington Publish that Kyiv had “nothing to do with the incident” and that there was no “strategic sense” for Ukraine to hold out the assault.

Ukraine’s navy intelligence spokesman Andriy Yusov declined to remark. “That Zakhar Prilepin is a battle legal — that is an apparent reality,” he stated. “All else we’re refraining from commenting on.”

Justine McDaniel contributed to this report.