Hromadske International: Who is now in charge of occupied Donetsk?

By Hromadske International.

Published Sept. 2, 2018. Updated Sept. 3 at 11:35 am

Dmitry Trapeznikov, interim Head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) gives a press conference on Aug. 31, in Donetsk, following emergency government meeting after Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), was killed in a bomb blast.

Photo by AFP

For the past four years, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has been led by Aleksandr Zakharchenko. However, this all changed on August 31, when the the leader of the occupied republic died in an explosion in a cafe in Donetsk city center, which also injured the republic’s “incomes and fees minister” Alexander Timofeyev.

Shortly after the news broke, the republic’s so-called “cabinet on ministers” convened and announced that DPR vice prime minister Dmitri Trapeznikov would take on the role of acting head.