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Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Zakharova, says “there are all grounds to believe” that the Ukrainian side is behind the murder of the leader of the “Donetsk People’s Republic,” Alexander Zakharchenko. “In Donetsk, head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Zakharchenko was killed in a terrorist act.

There are all grounds to believe that the Kyiv regime is behind his murder, as it repeatedly used similar methods to eliminate dissidents and opponents,” the Russian TASS agency quoted Zakharova as saying.

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