Contents tagged with Denis Pushilin

  • Pro-Moscow separatist leader says tribunal being prepared for captured Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol

    The head of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, said the pro-Moscow separatist government will soon hold tribunals for captured Ukrainian servicemen in Mariupol, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported.

    "Preparations are underway for preliminary tribunals or intermediate tribunals. One of the first will be held in Mariupol, everything is moving towards this," Pushilin said.

    The separatist leader told Rossiya 24 that he does not rule out the death penalty for members of the …

  • Leader of so-called Donetsk People’s Republic plans to make Mariupol ‘a resort town’

    The leader of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, said he plans to turn the destroyed city of Mariupol into a “resort town”, Russia’s state-controlled TASS news agency reported.

    After lighting the Eternal Flame at the city’s Victims of Fascism memorial in the Primorsky district, Pushilin stated "Russia is here forever, and you are finally home. Now this is the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic forever. No one will take it away from us.”

    "We have strength, we have …

  • Former commander of Vostok Battalion Khodakovsky believes the 'right-hand man' in the DPR Pushilin has fallen into disgrace

    Alexander Khodakovsky former Security Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) believes that the DPR's representative at the Minsk talks, Chairman of the People's Council Denis Pushilin, "fell into disgrace".

    "Pushilin was removed from the leadership of the Donetsk Republic social movement; on City Day they were told not to allow him at the podium, the mayors of cities were forbidden to invite him to events…. everything is curiouser and curiouser. Have you thought why …