Zakharchenko was killed by a bomb blast on August 31. The other two men were not identified but are thought to represent either the Kremlin or Russian security services. That fact that one of them is heard as saying “Zakharchenko is supported by Surkov”
The SBU said that one of them is Alexander Lavrentyev, an aide of Denis Pushilin, who then served as Speaker of “Parliament”. In the five-minute recording, the man identified by the SBU as Lavrentyev mentions the necessity “to remove Zakharchenko without elections before September”.(
SBU published three recordings in relation to Zakharchenko’s August 31 assassination and the ensuing purge of his allies. The key recording, released on September 27, is an excerpt from a four-hour long talk between three men held in a restaurant in the Turkish resort of Antalya in June 12.(
Zakharchenko’s assassins came from or at least had support from his close entourage./ Surprisingly, the ceremony was not attended by a single representative from the Russian government. 1週間前に南オセチアの「独立祝典」で会っているスルコフも、葬儀に現れず/