Where are they now?
RFE: Rogues' Gallery: Whatever Happened To The First Separatist Leaders In Ukraine?
In 2014, Russia-backed separatists made their grab for power in Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula as well as the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, sparking a conflict in the southeast of the country that has left some 13,000 dead, 30,000 wounded, and more than 1 million displaced.
In those early days and years, these were some of the figures wielding influence on the Russia-backed side. What has been their fate five years later?
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WNU Editor: Other separatist leaders include Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), who was assassinated last August. Commander Mikhail Tolstykh, better known by his nom de guerre Givi, who was assassinated in 2017. The more interesting story is who has replaced all of these leaders. Unfortunately, coverage on those people have been very sparse, and probably deliberately so.
