Zakhar Prilepin became the deputy battalion commander in the DPR
Famous Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin said that he intends to stay in the Donbas and pick up weapon to protect the region from Kiev aggression. According to Prilepin, which he previously expressed during an interview with the newspaper "TVNZ", he took the post of deputy commander of the battalion (for work with personnel) of a special assignment of the Armed Forces of the DPR. This information today is confirmed by the authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Information that Zakhar Prilepin became a representative of the Donbas people's militia, which officially became republican armed forces, appeared after the release of his new book, Platoon, where Prilepin describes the participation of representatives of the literary community in various armed conflicts and wars.
In the biography of Zakhar Prilepin there is a time of service as part of the Special Purpose Police Unit (OMON). He repeatedly participated in the performance of combat missions in the territory of the Chechen Republic and Dagestan. He has a military rank of major.
According to Zakhar Prilepin, he is not embarrassed by the statements of individual representatives of the creative intelligentsia about the fact that "the writer should not take up arms". Zakhar says the following: "It's my business. I want - I am writing. I do not want - I do not write ". He says that both Simonov and Dolmatovsky were also writers, and this in no way prevented them from defending their native land in arms.
For reference: Zakhar (real name - Eugene) Prilepin was born in 1975 year in the Ryazan region. The land of Donbass also considers its own, since there lived, and then laid down, many of his comrades.
Prilepin says that today he knows about a whole line of people willing to defend the Donbass from Kiev aggression.
Information that Zakhar Prilepin became a representative of the Donbas people's militia, which officially became republican armed forces, appeared after the release of his new book, Platoon, where Prilepin describes the participation of representatives of the literary community in various armed conflicts and wars.
In the biography of Zakhar Prilepin there is a time of service as part of the Special Purpose Police Unit (OMON). He repeatedly participated in the performance of combat missions in the territory of the Chechen Republic and Dagestan. He has a military rank of major.
According to Zakhar Prilepin, he is not embarrassed by the statements of individual representatives of the creative intelligentsia about the fact that "the writer should not take up arms". Zakhar says the following: "It's my business. I want - I am writing. I do not want - I do not write ". He says that both Simonov and Dolmatovsky were also writers, and this in no way prevented them from defending their native land in arms.
For reference: Zakhar (real name - Eugene) Prilepin was born in 1975 year in the Ryazan region. The land of Donbass also considers its own, since there lived, and then laid down, many of his comrades.
Prilepin says that today he knows about a whole line of people willing to defend the Donbass from Kiev aggression.
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