The lamp of the mind faded

The bomb for the head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, was laid in a floor lamp or chandelier in the Donetsk cafe "Separ", Kommersant reports with reference to preliminary investigation data.

The explosive device was driven by phone. The Donetsk "security forces" believe that it was almost impossible to establish the bomb without the help of "their": a cafe belonging to the head of the security of Zakharchenko was carefully guarded - it often had senior guests. It is located 200 meters from the residence of the "Head of the Republic". The militants are looking for accomplices of the organizers of the explosion among the closest encirclement of the “head of the republic”, since only there were aware of his plans.

Presumably the direct executor of the attack at the time of the explosion was next to the cafe and saw Zakharchenko arrived at him. He made a call that caused an explosion, immediately after the leader of the militants went into the premises.

As the adviser Zakharchenko Alexander Kazakov said , the bomb was laid in a cafe on the night from Thursday to Friday and driven remotely. “It was a border explosive device, the main principle of action was an explosive wave and fire. The explosion occurred at the moment when they went inside the cafe, the laying was made above the door inside. The guard was the first, he died right away. Alexander Vladimirovich, then another guard and“ DPR DPR, ”he said,” he said.

According to Kommersant, now the militants are checking information about the loss of one of Zakharchenko’s guards.

According to the interlocutors of the newspaper, Zakharchenko visited Separ to remember the deceased singer Joseph Kobzon. Former State Duma deputy Alexander Romanovich said on the eve of the Russia-1 television channel that the head of the income and collection of the DPR Timofeev (Sasha Tashkent), a large smuggler and a raider invited the head of the republic.

Timofeev himself was also injured in the explosion. He was hospitalized in serious condition.

The day before, the militants announced the detention of suspects of involvement in the murder of Zakharchenko. The number of detainees was not specified. It was claimed that these are "Ukrainian saboteurs and related persons." The militants blocked the suspects in the car on Khmelnitsky Avenue.

On Saturday evening, the representative of the MGB DPR Mikhal Popov said that saboteurs who organized the explosion are still in the Republic.

Earlier on the same day, the “acting head of the DPR” Dmitry Trapeznikov said that the detainees “confirmed the involvement of the Ukrainian side in the crime.” As reported by RBC, Kazakov accused of organizing the explosion of special operations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

On Friday evening in Donetsk - on the boulevards of Pushkin and Artem, Komsomolsky Prospekt, Lenin Square, Gurov Avenue, and mass detention of passers -by were held in the Drama Theater. A state of emergency was introduced into the DPR and banned and departure from the "republic". Military equipment appeared on the streets of Donetsk.

Immediately after the murder of Zakharchenko, Vladimir Putin, who expressed his condolences to the deceased, and the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, performed with accusations against Kyiv. "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. They will not succeed.

In the SBU, the Ukrainian authorities were charged with involvement in the explosion. “The death of Zakharchenko can be the result of internal criminal conflicts among militants, primarily related to the redistribution of a business, squeezed out during 2014-2018,” said Igor Guskov, head of the apparatus of the special services director. “But we do not exclude attempts at the Russian intelligence services to eliminate the odious figure, which, we have information, interfered with the Russians and today has become disturbed and today superfluous ".

In the fact of the explosion in Donetsk, the Investigative Committee in 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), The department expressed their readiness to help Donetsk "law enforcement officers."

The explosion in the Separ cafe became known on the eve of 17:42. Zakharchenko was taken to the hospital, where he died almost immediately - a message about his death appeared about 40 minutes later.

As a result of the explosion, several more people were injured: Interfax wrote about one deceased and three wounded before the appearance of reports about the death of Zakharchenko. According to the "Minister of Health of the DPR" Alexander Opprishchenko, the guard Zakharchenko also died, and another 12 people were injured.