Europe | Crime and punishment

Inside Ukraine’s assassination programme

Its agents have become expert in dark revenge. But some worry a clear strategy is absent

Men stand outside the bomb-damaged restaurant where Alexander Zakharchenko was killed, in Donetsk.
Image: AFP
|Kyiv

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