DISINFO: US responsible for the assassination attempt on Zakhar Prilepin
SUMMARY
The terrorist attack against the writer Zakhar Prilepin is another manifestation of that systematic approach to eliminating ideological opponents, which, through the efforts of Washington, has been actively planted in Ukraine since 2014, becoming the basic reflex of the Kyiv regime.
RESPONSE
There is no evidence to substantiate the claims that the US or any other Western country was behind the assassination attempt of Zakhar Prilepin.
Pro-war writer and political activist Zakhar Prilepin was hurt while driving in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region. His driver died.
The Crimean Tatar partisan movement Atesh has claimed responsibility for the attack. “The ATESH movement has been hunting for Prilepin since the beginning of the year. They got him. Everything is just beginning for rashists. The surprise worked. Zakhar is in the hospital”, the latest post on Atesh’s Telegram channel reads. The claim can be neither verified nor disproven at the present moment.
Russia has also accused Ukraine of the assassination. A senior Ukrainian official accused Russia of staging the incident. The Security Service of Ukraine told the online newspaper Ukrainian Pravda that officially it could “neither confirm nor deny” its involvement “in this or that explosion that happens to the occupiers and their accomplices.”
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