The head of the DPR Zakharchenko died as a result of the explosion

The head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko died as a result of the explosion. This was reported by the "island" on a link to the telegram channels of the Donetsk militants.

The explosion occurred in the Separ cafe in the center of Donetsk. Zakharchenko was taken to the hospital, where he died almost immediately.

The Donetsk News Agency supporting militants wrote about the explosion at 17:42. Zakharchenko’s death became known after about 40 minutes.

The Russia-24 TV channel published a video from the scene of the explosion.

According to RBC with reference to the "Deputy of the People's Council of the DPR" Vladislav Brig "of the acting head of the republic" will become "Deputy Prime Minister" Dmitry Trapeznikov.

Vladimir Putin expressed condolences in connection with the death of the leader of the militants. He called the deceased "a real national leader, a brave and decisive person, a patriot of Donbass." "The vile murder of Alexander Zakharchenko is another evidence: those who have chosen the path of terror, violence, intimidation do not want to look for a peaceful, political decision of the conflict, do not want to conduct a real dialogue with residents of the southeast (ed.), And they make a dangerous bet on the destabilization of the situation to put the people of Donbass on their knees. President.

In the fact of the murder of Zakharchenko, the Investigative Committee of Part 3 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code (an act of international terrorism, which entailed causing death to a person; from 15 to 20 years in a colony or lifelong imprisonment).

In the "Republic" they introduced a state of emergency with the ban on entry and departure from it. "Eduard Basurin, the deputy commander of the DPR operational command, announced the bringing of militants on the contact line to combat readiness. He referred to the fact that Ukrainian troops on the front line were also brought into combat readiness.

The head of the DPR was not the only victim from the incident. Even before the news of his death, Interfax wrote about one deceased and three wounded. Among the wounded - "Minister of Revenue and Duties of the DPR" Alexander Timofeev (Sasha Tashkent), a large smuggler and raider.

According to Vedomosti, the Separ cafe is located on Pushkin Boulevard, about 200 meters from the residence of the head of the DPR. Its owner is the head of the security of Zakharchenko. At the same time, the deceased himself appeared in the "Separ" rarely.

The militants said that the suspects had already been detained. It is claimed that these are several people - "Ukrainian saboteurs and related persons." The militants blocked the suspects in the car on Khmelnitsky Avenue.

The press secretary of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova also made accusations against Ukraine. "There is every reason to believe that for his (Zakharchenko. - Ed.) The Kiev regime is worth the murder, which has repeatedly used such methods for eliminating dissenting and objectionable," the official said. "Instead of fulfilling the Minsk agreements and finding ways to resolve the internal conflict, the Kiev party of war implements a terrorist scenario." In what cases the legal Ukrainian authorities "used such methods of elimination," Zakharova did not explain.

Meanwhile, the head of the apparatus of the SBU Director Igor Guskov in the commentary "112 - Ukrainian" rejected the accusation of the Ukrainian authorities of the murder of Zakharchenko. “Zakharchenko’s death may be the result of internal criminal conflicts among militants, primarily related to the redistribution of a business, squeezed out during 2014-2018,” the security officer remarked. “But we do not exclude attempts at the Russian special services also to eliminate the odious figure, which, we have information, prevented the Russians and has become superfluous today.”

In a similar way, the murder of the leader of the militants, the press secretary of the SBU Elena Gitlyanskaya commented. “We consider this the result of internecine wars,” she remarked to Ukrainian Truth.

Zakharchenko was 42 years old. He was born in Donetsk, in the mid-2000s he was the director of the Continent Trading House, owned by oligarch Rinat Akhmetov. Since December 2013, after the start of the revolution of dignity, he headed the Donetsk branch of the Kharkov Pro-Russian group Oplot. In April 2014 he headed the militants of the Donetsk city hall. The deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was announced. The DPR "and" Military commandant "of Donetsk. August 7, 2014 was replaced by the Russian political strategist Alexander Boroday as Prime Minister DPR; November 4 of the same year was declared the head of" Republic ".

On August 30, 2014, it was reported that Zakharchenko was attempted . The leader of the militants himself was not injured, but his driver was wounded. On May 8, 2017, in the Shakhtersky district of Donetchina there were explosions on the highway , along which Zakharchenko was supposed to go. There were no victims.

Over the years of Russian aggression against Ukraine, many of the leaders of the DPR and LPR were killed or survived. In particular, in the DPR in October 2016, the commander of the Sparta battalion Arseniya Pavlov (Motorola) was blown up, and in February 2017, the commander of the Somali battalion Mikhail Tolstoy (Givi) was killed by a grenade launcher. The murders were committed outside Eastern Ukraine. So, the leader of the Oplot Evgeny Zhilin, who fought in the Donetsk in 2014, was shot in a restaurant near Moscow in September 2016.