SHANGHAI, May 23. There are no forecasts for the discharge of the writer Zakhar Prilepin, the doctors are coping, everything is under control, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin told reporters.
“He is as alert as possible after such injuries. But the doctors avoid any forecasts, and I don’t need to name any dates. Everything is under control, the doctors are coping,” Nikitin said on the sidelines of the Russian-Chinese business forum.
On Monday, Prilepin's press service noted that the writer's condition is stable, he is undergoing rehabilitation measures, including physiotherapy exercises.
On May 6, Prilepin's car was blown up on a highway in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The writer was wounded, his colleague Alexander Shubin, who was an employee of the Oplot battalion of the National Guard, died. Police in hot pursuit detained a man who may be involved in the car bombing, he was charged under articles on the attack and illegal trafficking of explosives.
Prilepin on his telegram channel on May 7 said that he was driving a car and as a result of the explosion he received fractures of both legs, on May 12, the press service of Prilepin informed that the writer had successfully completed the second stage of the fixation operation leg fractures, his condition is stable, on May 19 the writer Prilepin underwent a successful operation to fix a broken vertebra in the lumbar region.