DPR Police Identify Perpetrators Of Terrorist Attack On Zakharchenko - DPR Leader's Office

DONETSK (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 01st September, 2018) Law enforcement bodies of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine have established the identity of the terrorists who assassinated republic's leader Alexander Zakharchenko, his press-secretary Alena Alekseeva said Friday.

Zakharchenko was killed in a staged bomb blast in a cafe in downtown Donetsk earlier in the day. DPR Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Timofeev, who accompanied Zakharchenko, is in grave condition in a hospital.

"The security operatives have quickly identified the terrorists and established that the bomb was set off on orders by the Ukrainian Security Service," Alekseeva told reporters.

"The Kiev regime, as always, is not able to fight openly and operates exclusively by inhuman terrorist methods," she added.