Russian nationalist writer describes surviving attack Moscow blamed on U.S., Ukraine

A view shows a damaged white Audi Q7 car lying overturned on a track next to a wood, after Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin was allegedly wounded in a bomb attack in a village in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia, May 6, 2023. REUTERS/Anastasia Makarycheva

(Reuters) - The prominent Russian nationalist writer, Zakhar Prilepin, on Sunday described breaking both legs in a car bomb that killed his driver and which Moscow blamed on the United States and Ukraine.

"To the demons I say: You will scare nobody. There is a God. We will win," he said in a Telegram post apparently written from hospital in Nizhny Novgorod region, where Russia's state Investigative Committee said his Audi Q7 was blown up on Saturday in a village about 400 km (250 miles) east of Moscow.