Zakharchenko knew that he would not be allowed to take Kyiv
The leader of Donbass, Alexander Zakharchenko, who died as a result of a terrorist attack, knew that, even if Kyiv was liberated from the Nazi regime, he was unlikely to receive the position of leader - as a result of intrigues, completely different people would come to power.
Writer Zakhar Prilepin, a former adviser to the ex-head of the DPR, shares such memories in his new book “Some Will Not Go to Hell.”
“...That time he suddenly admitted that he knew: when the charlatans in Kyiv offices will gather and fly off on the next flights to prepared addresses, without even leaving a number to call and find in the event of the discovery of forgotten things, lost cufflinks, children’s photographs in frames, a vibrating on the table, dying without the warm hand of the owner, on the last gasp of the telephone - when everyone disappears - he, Zakharchenko, will not be considered behind the red Kremlin wall even in the first dozen contenders for managing the mother of Russian cities; from somewhere others will appear who did not carry all this bloody cart on themselves; and it was clear from Bati’s face that he, in essence, didn’t care, that he had been ready for something like this for a long time, but was only puzzled as to why politics was structured so shamelessly,” said Prilepin.
Zakharchenko knew he wouldn't be allowed to take Kiev.