Car bomb kills one and injures pro-Kremlin writer in Russian city – as it happened

Zakhar Prilepin wounded in explosion in the region of Nizhny Novgorod, Russian state news agency says. This blog is now closed

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A prominent Russian nationalist writer, Zakhar Prilepin, was wounded in a car bombing in the region of Nizhny Novgorod on Saturday, the Russian state news agency Tass said, in an attack that Russia immediately blamed on Ukraine and the West.

Tass quoted a source in the emergency services as saying the writer's car was blown up. He survived, but was wounded and is conscious," the source was quoted as saying.

The fact has come true: Washington and Nato fed another international terrorist cell - the Kyiv regime.