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Zakharchenko killed in Donetsk café explosion

On 31 August 2018 Alexander Zakharchenko, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, was killed by a bomb at the Separ café in Donetsk; the separatists' finance chief Alexander Timofeyev was wounded.

Alexander Zakharchenko (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 31 August 2018 Alexander Zakharchenko, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, was killed by a bomb at the Separ café in Donetsk; the separatists' finance chief Alexander Timofeyev was wounded. Russia's foreign ministry said Kyiv was likely behind the killing, which Ukraine denied, while some observers pointed to rebel infighting.

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  • Alexander Zakharchenko

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    Zakharchenko killed in Donetsk café explosion. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.bbc.com — sourcebbc.com · verified
  2. 2.theguardian.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: zakharchenko+killed+explosion · verified
  3. 3.rferl.orgchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: zakharchenko+donetsk · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Zakharchenko killed in Donetsk café explosion. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/zakharchenko-killed-donetsk-blast-2018-08-31

https://factrail.ai/facts/zakharchenko-killed-donetsk-blast-2018-08-31

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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