New Gazeta: Plotnitsky fled to Russia

"Head of the LPR" Igor Plotnitsky fled to Russia, reports New Gazeta. According to the publication, a number of persons left with Plotnitsky from Lugansk, including the "Head of the Administration of the Head of the LPR" Irina Teitzman and "Director of the LPR GTRK" Anastasia Shurkaeva.

Meanwhile, the administrative buildings of the "republic" are still cordoned off by armed militants. As the "New" suggests, including militants as from the "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR", so from the "MGB DPR".

In the evening, the arrival of Plotnitsky in Moscow was confirmed by the writer Zakhar Prilepin. “Plotnitsky flew to Moscow from Rostov on a regular flight. That's just flew. The economy class, a calm person without security. In general, one,” Prilepin wrote . “In Sheremetyevo, two waiting for his operatives followed, young, cheerful, Moscow. This is how history looks ordinary and unpretentious. With themselves, a small bag on his shoulder and a jacket in the Czech. new life ".

The night before, the “head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR” Igor Kornet, shifted by the “decree” of Plotnitsky and refused to fulfill this decision, announced the disclosure of a group of high -ranking “officials of the republic” recruited by the GUR of Ukraine to conduct terrorist attacks. "Events", added the cornet, were carried out with the participation of militants of the DPR. "MGB DPR" made a similar message.

The names of the suspects in the publications were not disclosed. Previously, the Cornetaccused of Tasman and Shurkaev, as well as the “Head of the Government Security Safety Safety Safety” of the LPR, Evgeny Seliverstov.

Information about the flight of Plotnitsky appears in the media for the second time since the beginning of his conflict with the cornet. A similar message has already been published on Tuesday evening . However, in Lugansk then this information was refuted by demonstrating a video of the meeting of the Head of the Republic with the militants loyal to him.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday in the LPR, it was officially recognized that the former Prime Minister of the republic, Gennady Tsypkalov, who was seized in September 2016 on suspicion of preparing the “Commerce Capture”, died of torture, and did not commit suicide, as officially reported earlier. On the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic, "Council" was directly called a staging.

The "decree" of Plotnitsky about the displacement of the cornet was published on November 20. The next day, the center of Lugansk was blocked by militants with machine guns and armored personnel carrier . In particular, they cordoned off the building of the "Ministry of Internal Affairs". It was reported that the cornet and his supporters were barricaded in this building.

In the evening, there were reports that a large column of the DPR armored vehicles invaded Lugansk. It was noted that in its composition were militants of the formation "Vityaz", obeying the "head of the DPR" Alexander Zakharchenko.

The unnamed Kremlin official at the same time reported to RBC that Moscow took the side of the latter in the conflict of Plotnitsky and the cornet, but does not yet intend to remove the “head of the LPR”. The confrontation that began was characterized as "the process of formation of the control control model by Moscow." “If Donetsk is quite independent of the Kremlin and, in fact, their relationship can be described as an unobtrusive protectorate, then in the case of Lugansk Moscow decided to adjust certain processes in the republic and increase its influence,” the interlocutor of the publication explained.

However, officially in the Kremlin this information was refuted, saying that "events in Lugansk are the internal affair of the LPR and no one from Lugansk" to the Kremlin "turned to the Kremlin."