On February 24, 2018, Ukraine enacted the Law on the Particulars of State Policy on Ensuring the Sovereignty of Ukraine over Temporarily Occupied Territories in the Donetsk and Lugansk Regions. In the media, it became known as the “Reintegration of Donbass Law.”
On August 31, 2018, the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, was killed in an explosion at the “Separ” café in central Donetsk. The explosion was carried out using a shell-less explosive device planted above the entrance to the café.Alongside Zakharchenko, one of his bodyguards, Vyacheslav Dotsenko, was also killed, and 11 others were injured. The DPR authorities labeled the incident a terrorist attack orchestrated by Ukrainian officials
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