Igor Girkin

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Igor Strelkov, wearing camouflage, stands behind a desk with maps and speaks to journalists holding notepads and cameras in a room with blue walls in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Igor Girkin

Russian nationalist

Also known as: Strelkov

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Russia-Ukraine War
The Russian proxy war and the Poroshenko administration
…the nom de guerre of Igor Girkin, a former colonel with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), who established his headquarters in Slov’yansk. Poroshenko was inaugurated on June 7, and he immediately introduced a proposal to restore peace in separatist-controlled regions. Fighting continued, however, and on June 13 government forces…
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…the nom de guerre of Igor Girkin, a former colonel with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), who established his headquarters in Slov’yansk. Poroshenko was inaugurated on June 7, and he immediately introduced a proposal to restore peace in separatist-controlled regions. Fighting continued, however, and on June 13 government forces…
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