"Donetsk will avenge" the murder of Alexander Zakharchenko, said Denis Pushilin, head of the People's Assembly of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR). “This is yet another aggression on the part of Ukraine,” Pushilin said.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in turn, stated that it had nothing to do with the assassination attempt on Zakharchenko. “We consider this the result of internecine wars,” Ukrayinska Pravda quotes a statement by SBU spokeswoman Olena Gitlyanska.