The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, did not confirm or deny the information that Zakhar Prilepin was included in the list of targets.MOSCOW, May 16.
/tass/. The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov on Tuesday said that this structure is behind the terrorist attacks against some media persons in Russia.
"We have already got many, including public and media personalities," he said in an interview with Ukrainian blogger Sergei Ivanov, answering the question whether Kiev will be able to get Vladimir Solovyov or Alexander Dugin. Speaking about whether Zakhar Prilepin is included in the list of targets, Budanov said: "We cannot confirm or deny this."
On August 20, 2022, the car of journalist Daria Dugina was blown up in the Moscow region, she died. On April 2, 2023, as a result of an explosion in St. Petersburg, military commander Vladlen Tatarsky (real name - Maxim Fomin) was killed. On May 6, a car in which writer Zakhar Prilepin was traveling was blown up in the village of Pionersky, Nizhny Novgorod region. His guard was killed, Prilepin himself was wounded. According to investigators, the organizers of all these terrorist attacks were the special services of Ukraine and their agents.