Vladimir Petrovich Kononov is a former defence minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, serving from August 15, 2014, after the resignation of Igor Girkin until October 1, 2018.
Kononov in the 2015 DPR Victory Day Parade
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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
Vladimir Kononov (Donetsk People's Republic)
…Petrovich Kononov (Russian: Влади́мир Петро́вич Ко́нонов; born October 14, 1974; nom de guerre Tsar) is a former defence minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, serving from August 15, 2014, after the resignation of Igor Girkin (also known as Igor Strelkov) until October 1, 2018. Kononov is a Donetsk local…
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