2023-07-22 13:52:42
PORTRAIT – The former pro-Russian leader from Donetsk, a key figure in the 2014 war in Donbass, has been arrested for “extremism” in Russia. For months, the former intelligence officer fiercely decried the “special military operation”.
On April 26, 2014, the world discovered the name and face of “Igor Strelkov”. The forty-year-old, brown hair slicked back on both sides in an impeccably drawn parting, a thin black mustache highlighting an aquiline nose, with a slightly British elegance (only one strand), comes out of the shadows in an interview he grants to Komsomolskaya Pravda. The leader of “self-defense forcesof Sloviansk – the pro-Russian separatists fighting in the Donbass against the Ukrainian army – has nothing to do with the KGB killer as fantasized in Hollywood movies. He vaguely looks like Colonel Olrik though. But without the inimitable allure of the big villain of Edgar P. Jacobs. Igor Strelkov looks almost whippy, floating in a suit cut too big for him.
It is that the nationalist that he has always been dreams big. Its main idea is not limited to the annexation of Crimea and the constitution of small puppet states acting as a buffer between Ukraine and Russia in the oblasts…
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