Former LPR official doubts there was a coup attempt in the separatist republic
One of the Russian coordinators in the occupied Donbas, Alexander Zhuchkovsky, has accused the leader of the so-called Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), Igor Plotnitsky, of lying and commented on the situation regarding an attempted “coup d’etat.” He made this statement on his page on Vkontakte [Russian social network].
He noted that he has not dealt with the LPR for more than a year and does not interfere in what happens there, but has a view of the situation.
According to Zhuchkovsky, there are serious doubts that there has been a coup d’etat attempt, which the leader of the LPR, Igor Plotnytsky referred to.
He equated killings and repressions in the LPR to commercial squabbles between the local leaders of the militia and also to Plotnytsky’s attempts to build a “power vertical.”
He noted that people who were accused of the coup d’etat attempt in the LPR, realized the pointlessness of such action as the power in the LPR is directed by Moscow and it cannot be gained through the use of arms.
Zhuchkovsky says that people who would come to power in the LPR through a coup d’etat, would be cleaned up by Russia.
He also noted that there is an atmosphere of total mistrust in the LPR and that’s why the leader of the local militia requested support from the leader of the DPR militia, Alexander Zakharchenko.