Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, also known by the alias Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, is a Russian army veteran and former Federal Security Service officer who played a key role in the Russian annexation of Cri
Girkin in 2015
Personality Identification Playing Card of Igor "Strelkov"
Girkin in April 2023 at the funeral of a Russian volunteer and ex-Russian Wikipedia editor, Vadim Sokolov.
Girkin (left) during a military reenactment
The Donetsk People's Republic is a disputed republic of Russia with a capital in Donetsk, established on an illegally annexed part of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. The DPR was created in 2014 whe
Pro-Russian separatists taking down the Ukrainian flag and raising the Russian flag at the Donetsk regional government headquarters, 1 March 2014
Pro-Russian protest in Donetsk, 6 April 2014. Pictured are flags of Russia, the Donbas People's Militia, the Russian Empire, and the Eurasian Youth Union.
The occupied Donetsk RSA building on 4 May 2014
Sloviansk city council under the control of heavily armed men on 14 April 2014