On September 9, a requiem meeting was held on the territory of the Saur-Mogila memorial complex in the Shakhtyorsky district of the Donetsk People's Republic, timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Donbass from the Nazi invaders.

On September 8, the first meeting of the new Council of Ministers of the DPR was held. The Acting Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin commented on the outcome of the event.

On September 8, in the capital's centre, at the memorial "To Your Liberators, Donbass!", a solemn meeting was held on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Donbass from the Nazi invaders. The event was attended by Acting DPR Head Denis Pushilin, Vice-Commander of the Operational Command Eduard Basurin, representatives of the Donetsk City Council, veterans of the Great Patriotic War, and residents and guests of the city.

On September 7, a plenary meeting of the DPR People’s Council took place in the Government House’s debating chamber. Maxim Korolyuk commented on the parliament’s decisions taken at the meeting.

The decisions, which have been approved by the People's Council today, are adopted to maintain security in the Republic. This was stated by a deputy Andrei Borisov in an interview to the journalist of the DPR official website.

The decision to hold elections of the DPR Head and the People's Council deputies is a necessary measure for maintaining the system of state power in the DPR, Denis Pushilin, Acting Head of the DPR, stated in the 60 minutes programme on the Russia 1 channel.

The appointment of Denis Pushilin to the post of the Acting Head of the DPR and decision to hold elections are the only right lawful output, which allowed dealing with judicial contradictions due to the tragic death of the head of the state. This was stated by the Chairman of the People’s Council’s Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building and deputy Vladimir Bidyovka in an interview to the official website of the DPR.

The Chairman of the DPR People’s Council, the Permanent Plenipotentiary Representative of the DPR in the Contact Group’s negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin described the progress of the investigation of the assassination of the Head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko in an interview with RT.

The tragic death of Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko led to the fact that the situation in the Donetsk People's Republic that has occurred as of today is legally stalemate.

Ukraine has completely fallen out of touch with Donbass and Russian world, and a society is as united as never before after the death of the Head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko. This was stated by the Chairman of the DPR People’s Council, Permanent Plenipotentiary Representative of the DPR in the Contact Group’s negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin in an interview to “Izvestia”.