Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, a.k.a Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, a former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, was instrumental in the formation of the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in 2014. He rose to the position of DPR defense minister, and lost that position following the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in August 2017; Netherlands prosecutors sought his