Alexander Zakharchenko

Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko (Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Заха́рченко, Олекса́ндр Володи́мирович Заха́рченко; 26 June 1976 – 31 August 2018) was a Ukrainian separatist leader. He was the head of state and Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed state and a rebel group Donetsk People's Republic, which declared independence from Ukraine on 11 May 2014.

Zakharchenko was assassinated by a bombing in Donetsk, on 31 August 2018, aged 42.