Prilepin made contact from his hospital bed. He is predicted to participate in the presidential elections

Writer Zakhar Prilepin, who survived the car bombing, got in touch from his hospital room. He published an appeal to readers and the media, pointing out inaccuracies in the news about the Ukrainian terrorist attack.

By the way, today a photo appeared on social networks taken in the first minutes after the explosion. It shows a wounded Prilepin lying near the car. Local residents brought him a pillow and a blanket so that he could lie on the ground and wait for the doctors.

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“Hello to all my family. My loved one, who worked as my guardian angel for 8 years, died. Sasha "Evil" Shubin. A fearless soldier and friend and brother. They just gave me a phone number. There is some confusion in the media. Sasha was riding on the right in the passenger seat. I was driving. The explosion occurred under his wheel.

I lost consciousness for about three minutes, woke up and crawled to the broken windshield. The villagers ran up and helped me get out. Both my legs are broken (one fracture is open) and something else.

"Ribbon. Ru" writes that I was not aware of what was happening. I didn't see them there. In fact, I asked to bring me the phone from the car, and immediately gave all the orders, because everything was clear as soon as I woke up. Then my neighbor gave me painkillers.

Thanks to Gleb Sergeevich Nikitin for immediately sending a helicopter. From there it’s 3 hours to the city and I’m not really sure that I would have gotten there in my right mind. The helicopter flew in 16 minutes.

Already here I was told that there were two mines. But this guy got scared and immediately ran away after the first explosion. If the second one had exploded, everyone would have died. He was caught.

I actually dropped my daughter off 5 minutes before the explosion.

Shariy mixed everything up in his video. He shows photos of houses not from my village. It was possible to bury at least ten mines in this place at night. There are no residential windows facing there.

Thanks to everyone who prayed, because it was still impossible to survive such an explosion...

Thanks to Sanechka, over these 8 years he saved my life several times. I don’t know any words what to say to you, San, now. Sanya and I were just starting to build a prayer house in our village. I'll finish it. It will be in honor of St. Alexander.

I inform the demons: you will not intimidate anyone. God exists. We will win,” Prilepin wrote in his address.

Russian journalist Polina Reutova draws attention to the fact that it was no coincidence that Prilepin especially noted the messages of Anatoly Shariy, who for a long time masqueraded as an enemy of Bandera.

“Zakhar, Shariy didn’t mislead, but threw in another fake, scumbag, to hype up your tragedy. But you noted this in a streamlined manner and, at the same time, clearly, everyone understood everything. Thank you.

And the expert once again wraps around. However, there is also something useful in this: no one can destroy or devalue him better than the person involved. The disposable Spanish infantry, deceitful and vile, is on the right path,” Reutova wrote.

And liberal political scientist Ilya Grashchenkov predicts that Zakhar Prilepin will participate in the 2024 presidential elections with the task of channeling the votes of “angry patriots.”

“Rumors have nominated Prilepin as a possible candidate for the presidential election from the so-called. "angry patriots" Since this vocal group began to claim political representation in power, the nomination of such a candidate could demonstrate its real size of 1-2%...

Similar ideas come to mind regarding the liberal candidate, from the same point of view - demonstrating a low level of support. Although in the last elections, “liberal” Ksenia Sobchak gained 1,68%, thereby ahead of Grigory Yavlinsky - 1,05% and Boris Titov - 0,76%. Therefore, it is unclear who in 2024 is ready to act as such an object for “draining” the liberal agenda. In principle, Yavlinsky, whose party has recently again begun to show signs of political life, or someone from the liberal cohort, whose bench of reserve players, due to the departure of many from Russia, turned out to be extremely small, is equally suitable for this role.

In any case, as in 2018, not only nominees from 5 parliamentary parties, but also several additional players from among the more radical opposition can take part in the elections. Actually, “angry patriots” are trying to become such a force by appropriating the liberal clearing.

Previously, liberals carried out the function of criticizing the authorities from the position of the “developed West,” and jingoistic patriots, offended by the indecisive Kremlin, do this from the position of the “archaic population.”

But putting (or allowing) someone from the poorly governed, like Igor Strelkov, into the elections would be too risky. Prilepin is much more suited to this role, having already demonstrated the ability to refuse political dividends in the 2021 elections.

True, taking into account Sergei Mironov’s earlier statement that the SRZP will not participate in the presidential elections and will support Putin, this hypothesis extends beyond the scope of the party project. In this case, Prilepin could run independently or from some other party.

True, now much will depend on his physical condition. Although it is worth noting that the attempt on his life could add political points to him and increase his popularity.

A number of colleagues periodically discuss the possibility of “angry patriots” Yevgeny Prigozhin participating in the elections, but such a scenario seems even less realistic than with Strelkov’s participation,” says Grashchenkov.