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.(
2016.3.16 実際はプリゴジンがやらせてたと Dmitry Kargaev, advisor to the so-called leader of the (LPR) Igor Plotnitsky, is reported to have been killed on Wednesday, March 16, according to local news website CXID.info referring to a source close to the "head of the LPR administration."
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without ever naming him. Novaya Gazeta guesses this was former adviser Dmitry Kargaev, who was murdered in March 2016./Allegedly acting on Maikhilov’s orders, Amelchenko says he put together a team that included two men named Vladimir Gladienko and Sergey Kuznetsov./ After some time,(
“After these meetings, Amelchenko’s group operated mainly in Ukraine (in the war-torn Donbass and in the Kyiv area). Amelchenko told Novaya Gazeta almost nothing about what the team did, but he did recall the murder of former Luhansk separatist leader Igor Plotnitsky’s “right-hand man,”(
Valery Amelchenko/ Andrei Mikhailov /Prigozhin behind the attack on the husband of Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Navalny/ and helped assassinate a separatist leader in Luhansk. In addition, he claimed to have been part of a group sent to test poisons on captured rebels in Syria./
9/30 On September 27, the SBU published an audio recording of a conversation between an assistant to Denis Pushilin, the new DPR leader, and two unknown persons, where they discussed the “replacement” of Zakharchenko as head of the DPR.
Tens of thousands turned out for Zakharchenko’s funeral, in a display of grief that was more than simply a stage-managed spectacle.〜If Moscow – or Kiev – believes it can decide how this war ends without considering these people’s views and interests, they are going to be disappointed.
9/4 His acting successor, Dmitry Trapeznikov, has a reputation as a man whose principles are less pronounced than his pragmatism. He has been connected with figures as varied as Russia’s lord high curator Vladislav Surkov, local oligarch Rinat Akhmedov and several crime bosses./
to improve its micro-management – in this case the running of the Donetsk “People’s Republic”. The fact that Zakharchenko was assassinated and not ousted by a coup like in Luhansk also suggests that his support among the armed formations was deemed as too big.
a former separatist commander who turned into an open critic during the last two years, stopped publishing social media posts in May. Taken together, all this points to a killing that might have been ordered by Moscow – but not in order to escalate or de-escalate the conflict, but rather(
Zakharchenko’s funeral became an interesting show of public support for the Donetsk separatists./ Denis Pushilin never openly criticized him, not even after he was ousted as leader of the ruling “Donetsk Republic” movement in October (see Newsletter 24). And Alexander Khodakovsky,(
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/
9/4 Kazakov stressed that Zakharchenko had decided spontaneously to visit the café, which is located close to his office. He added that stops in restaurants were a habit of Zakharchenko that became “a headache” for his bodyguards./These circumstances led most observers to conclude that(
Polina Rumyantseva told the Guardian reporters from the paper had been in the apartment and did not see any signs of a struggle. It appeared to investigators, she said, that Borodin had gone on the balcony to smoke and had fallen.”