The leader of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR), Aleksandr Zakharchenko, was assassinated by a bomb blast on August 31, after almost four years of continuous service to the Russian occupation in three capacities simultaneously: “head of the republic,” head of the “council of ministers” (government), and commander-in-chief of the DPR forces with a titular rank...
Change at the top exposes the politics of Donetsk-Luhansk ‘people’s republics’
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