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Prominent Russian separatist commander killed in eastern Ukraine
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS | Mon Oct 17, 2016 | 6:37am EDT
Prominent Russian separatist commander killed in eastern Ukraine
By Maria Tsvetkova and Pavel Polityuk | MOSCOW/KIEV
A prominent Russian separatist commander was assassinated in eastern Ukraine on Sunday evening, his allies said on Monday, accusing Ukrainian government forces of murdering him to try to destabilize an already fragile ceasefire.
Arseny Pavlov, a Russian national who went by the nom de guerre "Motorola", was blown up in the lift of his apartment building in Donetsk together with his bodyguard, according to Eduard Basurin, deputy defense minister in the government of the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic.
Donetsk is the biggest city in the Ukrainian region of Donbass, which pro-Russian militants seized in 2014 and where daily skirmishes and shellings test a shaky 2015 ceasefire deal.
"The bomb was placed above the lift's cabin. The blast was concentrated inside the cabin," Basurin told Reuters.
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Prominent Russian separatist commander killed in eastern Ukraine
By Maria Tsvetkova and Pavel Polityuk | MOSCOW/KIEV
A prominent Russian separatist commander was assassinated in eastern Ukraine on Sunday evening, his allies said on Monday, accusing Ukrainian government forces of murdering him to try to destabilize an already fragile ceasefire.
Arseny Pavlov, a Russian national who went by the nom de guerre "Motorola", was blown up in the lift of his apartment building in Donetsk together with his bodyguard, according to Eduard Basurin, deputy defense minister in the government of the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic.
Donetsk is the biggest city in the Ukrainian region of Donbass, which pro-Russian militants seized in 2014 and where daily skirmishes and shellings test a shaky 2015 ceasefire deal.
"The bomb was placed above the lift's cabin. The blast was concentrated inside the cabin," Basurin told Reuters.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-commander-idUSKBN12H12D
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