Alexander Zakharchenko

Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko (, ; 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.