MOSCOW. Aug 31 (Interfax) - If fears are confirmed that the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) leader Alexander Zakharchenko had been killed at Kyiv's direction, this will mean that the United States, which supplies Ukraine with the Javelin missile system, sponsors terrorism, according to Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the foreign affairs committee in the Federation Council.
"If the most obvious theory is confirmed, the theory that Zakharchenko was killed at the direction of Kyiv, it will get absolutely clear which party to the Ukrainian conflict is terrorist. It will mean that the current ATO [anti-terrorist operation] was and is led by the DPR and LPR [Luhansk people's republic]. It will mean that the U.S., with its Javelins for Kyiv, is a state sponsor of terrorism," Kosachyov wrote on Facebook.