The head of the LPR Igor Plotnitsky resigned

The head of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, Igor Plotnitsky, has resigned for health reasons, the Luhansk Information Center reports, citing LPR State Security Minister Leonid Pasechnik.

“Numerous combat wounds, the consequences of shell shock,” the message says.

Pasechnik says that, according to the decision of Plotnitsky, he will act as head of the LPR "until the upcoming elections." Plotnitsky himself was appointed "authorized from the Luhansk People's Republic for the implementation of the Minsk agreements."

Whether the removed Plotnitsky (and who refused to resign) LPR Interior Minister Igor Kornet will remain in office has not yet been reported.

In 2016, Igor Plotnitsky announced the resignation of Leonid Pasechnik - this happened after the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of State Security of the Luhansk separatists arrested the Minister of Fuel and Energy Dmitry Lyamin. to resign Pasechnik then refused and eventually remained in office.

Update 12:03 November 25th. “The People’s Council of the LPR today satisfied the resignation of the head of the Republic Igor Plotnitsky and approved his proposal to appoint Leonid Pasechnik as acting head of the LPR,” the reports . Luhansk Information Center

• The resignation of Igor Plotnitsky was preceded by his conflict with the Minister of the Interior of the LPR, Igor Kornet. Plotnitsky dismissed Cornet, but he refused to carry out this order; On November 21, administrative buildings in Lugansk were blocked by armed men, allegedly subordinate to Kornet. It was also reported that a convoy of military equipment from the DPR entered the city.
• On November 23, it became known that Plotnitsky had left for Russia. The writer Zakhar Prilepin met him on the plane to Moscow.
• On the morning of the same day, Kornet announced that the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs, together with the DPR Ministry of State Security, carried out successful joint “counterintelligence and anti-sabotage” activities against a “criminal group” associated with Ukrainian intelligence, which had agents “from among high-ranking officials of the LPR.”