Editing Alexander Zakharchenko (section)

=== Reactions ===
Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] sent his condolences to Zakharchenko's family, calling his death a "contemptible murder", blaming the hawks within the Ukrainian government for the murder. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokesperson Maria Zakharova blamed Ukraine for the assassination, claiming that it is "driving its country to the verge of an all-out disaster at increasingly faster speeds." Residents of the Republic of Crimea honored the memory of Zakharchenko by laying flowers by his portraits in the central square of their capital, Simferopol.
The acting head of the Luhansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, paid tribute to Zakharchenko at a memorial service in the Republic, saying that the "banner of struggle, lifted by Alexander Zakharchenko, will never fall". He also said that the Republic of Donbass "will not forgive Zakharchenko’s murder".
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