The assassination of the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko, was organized by the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces, Zakharchenko's adviser Alexander Kazakov told Sputnik on Saturday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 01st September, 2018) The assassination of the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko, was organized by the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces, Zakharchenko's adviser Alexander Kazakov told Sputnik on Saturday.
"We have already revealed the initiator that is the Special Operations Forces. We are likely to name the head of the [assault] group and responsible officer of this structure in the near future," Kazakov said.
He pointed out that several suspects had been detained and already made confessions.
Zakharchenko was killed in a bomb blast in the cafe Separ in downtown Donetsk on Friday. DPR Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Timofeev, who accompanied Zakharchenko, is in a grave condition in a hospital. According to the DPR Emergencies Ministry, two people were killed and 11 more were injured by the blast. Six of those wounded were hospitalized. A DPR lawmaker told Sputnik that apart from Zakharchenko his bodyguard was killed in the blast.
The Russian Foreign Ministry and DPR officials said that Kiev was behind the assassination. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in its turn, said it was not involved in the murder.
