The former “people’s governor” of Donbas, Pavlo Gubarev, who was at the origin of the creation of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic in 2014, announced the disappearance of his wife, Lenta reports.

Gubarev reported on his Telegram channel that his wife Kateryna Gubareva, who was appointed by the Russian occupiers as the deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region after the death of Kirill Stremousov, disappeared on Tuesday afternoon.

Gubarev also said that she was last seen near the government building in Genitsk, where the Russian occupation authorities set up their “temporary capital” on Saturday, a day after the withdrawal from the west bank of the Dnieper was completed and the city of Kherson was abandoned.

Volodymyr Saldo, acting head of the Kherson “military-civilian” administration, also tried to call Gubareva to find out where she was, but she, according to her husband, did not answer.

Who is Pavlo Gubarev?

He was known in Ukraine as a prominent pro-Russian activist before the illegal occupation of Crimea in 2014, when Gubarev declared himself the “people’s governor” of Donetsk region after pro-Russian separatists took over the local regional council.

He was later ousted by other separatist leaders, such as Denys Pushylin, the current head of the Russian-installed administration in this region of eastern Ukraine, and barred from participating in parliamentary elections allegedly organized by pro-Russian rebels.

Shortly after declaring himself a “people’s governor” in March 2014, he was arrested by the SBU, the Security Service of Ukraine. But only two months later, he was released in exchange for SBU officers arrested by Donbas separatist fighters.

Last month, Gubarev shared a strange video message in which he claimed that Ukrainians are actually Russians possessed by a devil who will be killed if they are not persuaded to side with Moscow.

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