What is known by this moment about the attempt on Zakhar Prilepin (complemented) The blown -up car Zakhara Prilepin. Hard video Around 10.40 in the morning of May 6, a car Zakara Prilepin, a writer and one of the main ideologists of a military operation in Ukraine, was blown up in the village of Pionersky Nizhny Novgorod Region. At the time of the explosion in the car, along with Prilepin, his driver Alexander Shubin was with the call sign “Evil” - he died on the spot.