Denis Pushilin, the top of the DPR’s separatist authorities, has been in energy since 2018, when his predecessor, Alexander Zakharchenko, was killed by a bomb blast at a restaurant.
He faces an uphill battle governing with the breakaway area reduce off from the commerce routes it relied on it earlier than the warfare. Donetsk stays an industrial city, with factories and vegetation, however siloed from Ukraine and topic to Russian tariffs, these producers are struggling to remain afloat.
