Alexandru Zakhartchenko

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Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko (26 June 1976 – 31 August 2018) was a pro-Russian separatist leader who was the Russia-installed head of state and prime minister of the Donetsk People's Republic, a self-proclaimed state and Russian-backed rebel group which declared independence from Ukraine on 11 May 2014. Zakharchenko was killed in August 2018 when a bomb exploded in a café that he frequently visited in Donetsk.

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Early and personal life Zakharchenko graduated from technical college. He then worked as a mine electrician before opening a business in the mining industry. He studied with the law institute of the Interior Ministry.

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Political career In December 2013, Zakharchenko became head of the Donetsk branch of OPLOT, a pro-Russian militant organization established in Kharkiv by Yevgeny Zhilin. On 16 April 2014, in the chaotic aftermath of Euromaidan, 20 members of Oplot (including Zakharchenko), armed with clubs, rifles and some automatic weapons, occupied the offices of Donetsk City Council, demanding a referendum on the status of the region. By late April 2014, Zakharchenko was the commander of OPLOT. From May 2014, Zakharchenko was playing a leading role in the insurgency against Ukraine's central government, with leaked emails showing Russia's role in his rise. On 22 July 2014, he was wounded in the arm during a fight against Ukrainian government forces at Kozhevnia. In late August 2014, the DPR Ministry of Defence announced Zakharchenko's promotion to major general. Pavel Gubarev recalling how he met Zakharchenko for the first in 2014 described how he introduced himself as "Pavel, businessman" to which Zakharchenko replied "Alexander, bandit", alluding to his close ties with Donbass organised crime groups. Zakharchenko succeeded Alexander Borodai as DPR prime minister on 7 August 2014, with Borodai becoming Deputy Prime Minister. Borodai later stated that Donbas native Zakharchenko had been installed over him as…Citește mai mult

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Political positions During the 2014 Donbas parliamentary elections campaign, Zakharchenko told potential voters that he wanted pensions to be "higher than in Poland." Zakharchenko said this was feasible because Donetsk is very rich, "like the United Arab Emirates [...] [the Donetsk people] have coal, metallurgy, natural gas [. . .] [t]he difference between [them] and the Emirates is they don't have a war [in the Emirates] and [Donetsk does]." Zakharchenko promised to build "a normal state, a good one, a just one. [Donetsk] boys died for this, civilians are still being killed for this". He stated: “…this generation is being raised on democracy, which implies that a family can have two fathers or two mothers. To me, this is categorically unacceptable.” In an interview with Zakhar Prilepin on Tsargrad TV in late 2016, he said that Britain must be conquered, which would usher in a "Golden Age for Russia". Prilepin, a Russian writer and political activist of the National Bolshevik Party, stated that Zakharchenko was among the top five most popular politicians in Ukraine and could be elected the President of Ukraine. In 2016, Prilepin published a book in which Alexander Zakharchenko is the protagonist. In July 2015, Zakharchenko said…Citește mai mult

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Human rights abuses In October 2014, Zakharchenko declared in interview that he can shell at any Ukrainian city with a clear conscience, stating: "If I don't shell Avdiivka (by Donetsk) it's because my people live there, but I can shell any other Ukrainian city and I won't feel sorry for the civilians or anyone else. This is a different war. You came to kill us, just to destroy us. So you will get done to you what you are doing here". During the war in Donbas there were many cases of forced disappearances in the Donetsk People's Republic. Zakharchenko said that his forces detained up to five "Ukrainian subversives" every day. It was estimated that about 632 people were under illegal detention by separatist forces by 11 December 2014. Freelance journalist Stanislav Aseyev was abducted on 2 June 2017 under espionage charges. At first, the de facto DNR government denied knowing his whereabouts, but on 16 July an agent of the DNR's Ministry of State Security confirmed that Aseyev was in their custody and that he was suspected of espionage. Independent media was not allowed to report from the DNR-controlled territory. Amnesty International demanded that Zakharchenko release Aseyev. He was…Citește mai mult

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Assassination Zakharchenko was killed by a bomb explosion in the café "Separ" ("Сепар", a slang term for "separatist" both in Ukrainian and Russian) on Pushkin Boulevard in Donetsk, on 31 August 2018. Reports say DNR's finance minister Alexander Timofeyev was also wounded in the blast. The DNR and the Russian Federation blamed the Ukrainian government authorities. Officials in Kyiv rejected the accusations, stating that Zakharchenko's death was the result of civil strife in the DNR. Initial reports say that Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Trapeznikov was appointed acting head of the Donetsk People's Republic. Funeral and memorial services were scheduled for 2 September, in the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. A three-day mourning period was declared on 1 September, with the start of the new academic year in the territory being postponed until 4 September. Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to Zakharchenko's family, calling his death a "contemptible murder". The Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokesperson Maria Zakharova blamed Ukraine for the death, claiming that it is "driving its country to the verge of an all-out disaster at increasingly faster speeds". The acting head of the Luhansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, paid tribute to Zakharchenko at a memorial service in…Citește mai mult

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Gennadiy Tsypkalov Separatist forces of the war in Donbas