Co-chairman of the party "Fair Russia - For Truth", Zakhar Prilepin, was put into a medication sleep for a smooth exit from anesthesia. Doctors successfully performed the second stage of the operation to fix bone fragments in order to ensure their firm fixation until complete fusion.Prilepin's car was blown up in the Nizhny Novgorod region on May 6.

The UK qualified the incident as a terrorist attack. On May 8, the Semenovsky District Court arrested Alexander Permyakov, accused of attempting to assassinate Prile pin.