Alexander Permyakov, suspected of blowing up Zakhar Prilepin's car, allegedly told the police that he was not involved in the assassination attempt and was simply catching partridges in the pond, the police officers who detained him say. Video published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“He made us suspicious. This person told us things that are not reality. There was no lake in this area. There were no partridges there either,” said district police officer Dmitry Voevodin.
According to the police, during a search, Permyakov found two passports – Russian and Ukrainian. “They started talking to him, talking, and he finally confessed,” says another policeman.
On May 6, the Investigative Committee of Russia published a video with Permyakov. The man said that he was born in Druzhkovka, Donetsk region, in 1993. In 2018, he was allegedly “recruited by the Ukrainian special services.” On their own instructions, he came to Russia in 2022 to “eliminate” Prilepin. Permyakov claims that he used two anti-tank mines to blow up his car. The man on camera says that he repents of his deed.
Some time after the publication of the video with Permyakov, the attempt on Prilepin was commented on by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). A representative of the press service of the department in a commentary to Ukrayinska Pravda stated that he could neither confirm nor deny the involvement of the SBU in the explosion.
On May 6, in the Bora region of the Nizhny Novgorod region, a car with Prilepin was blown up . Pro-Kremlin media also reported that inside was a 27-year-old native of Lugansk, Alexander Shubin, who fought on the side of the “LPR”. He died, while Prilepin himself survived, allegedly being seriously wounded. Later, Russian news agencies reported that he had been put into a medically induced coma. The Russian Foreign Ministry blamed the attempt on Prilepin on the Ukrainian authorities and "their Western patrons, primarily the United States."
