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Who replaced Ananchenko as Donetsk 'prime minister'?
Summary
A look back at 8 June 2022, when Vitaliy Khotsenko was sworn in as head of the Russian-backed Donetsk People's Republic government, amid fighting in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Who took over the government of the Donetsk People's Republic on 8 June 2022? Vitaliy Khotsenko was sworn in that day as the entity's new Prime Minister, following the dismissal of Alexander Ananchenko.
The change came as the war entered its fourth month. On 3 June, President Volodymyr Zelensky, together with Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, marked the hundredth day of the war with a sombre but resolute video address. Zelensky said Ukraine had been defending its country for 100 days and that victory would be Ukraine's.
Front-line visit and fighting
On 5 June, Zelensky said in his evening address that he had visited troops on the front line at the boundary of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, including in Lysychansk and Soledar. He said he was proud of everyone he had met, shaken hands with and supported.
The same day, Russian forces pushed towards Bila Krynytsia, which Ukrainian forces had recently retaken. Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military administration, said Russian units had returned to positions they had previously held.
Forecasts and food diplomacy
Speaking on 4 June at the GLOBSEC-2022 forum in Bratislava, Slovakia, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said it was hard to predict when the war would end, but that his optimistic forecast was that it could finish by the end of the year.
On 3 June in Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Senegal's president, Macky Sall, discussed the food and grain crisis caused by Russia's blocking of Ukrainian grain, along with economic and humanitarian cooperation, the Kremlin reported.
