A suspect within the automobile bombing which injured a distinguished pro-Kremlin novelist and killed his driver has been arrested.
Thirty-year-old Alexander Permyakov has been charged with committing an act of terrorism and possession and distribution of explosives.
The blast that hit the automobile of Zakhar Prilepin, an ardent supporter of Russia's navy invasion of Ukraine, was the third such assault on pro-Kremlin figures because the begin of the operation.
The author suffered damaged bones, bruised lungs and different accidents because of the blast.
Prilepin turned a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014 after Putin annexed the Crimean peninsula.
He was concerned within the battle in japanese Ukraine on the aspect of Russia-backed separatists. Final yr, he was sanctioned by the European Union for his help of Russia's motion in Ukraine.
In 2020, he based a political occasion, For the Fact, which Russian media reported was backed by the Kremlin.
In August 2022, a automobile bombing on the outskirts of Moscow killed Daria Dugina, the daughter of an influential Russian political theorist also known as "Putin's mind.” The authorities alleged that Ukraine was behind the blast.
Final month, an explosion in a restaurant in St. Petersburg killed a well-liked navy blogger, Vladlen Tatarsky. Officers as soon as once more blamed Ukrainian intelligence companies for orchestrating it.