FILE
- In this Sunday, May 18, 2014 file photo, Donetsk People's Republic
platoon commander Arsen Pavlov, also known as Motorola, rides a bike at a
checkpoint blocking the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside
Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine. Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine say a
notorious warlord has been killed in a bombing in the rebel stronghold
of Donetsk. The separatist mouthpiece Donetsk News Agency said on
Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016, Arsen Pavlov was killed in Donetsk when a bomb
went off in an elevator in the house he was staying. (AP Photo/Alexander
Zemlianichenko, File)
MOSCOW (AP) — A notorious warlord has been killed in a bombing in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, separatist officials said.
The
separatist Donetsk News Agency said that Arsen Pavlov, also known as
Motorola, was killed on Sunday in Donetsk when a bomb exploded in an
elevator in an apartment building where he was staying. He is one of
several prominent warlords who have been killed in bombings in the past
year which Ukraine watchers attribute to infighting among the
separatists. Pavlov once admitted killing 15 prisoners of war.
Separatist officials have blamed previous bombings on Ukrainian saboteurs operating in the rebel-controlled areas.
The
conflict between separatists and Ukrainian government forces has been
raging since April 2014, killing more than 9,600 people.
Russian-born
Pavlov, 33, worked in a car wash before he crossed the border and
joined the separatists in 2014 before becoming one of the most
recognizable faces of the Donetsk separatist movements.
Ukraine
still has not adopted a law which under peace accords signed in 2015
will grant amnesty to Donetsk separatists. Pavlov was one of the figures
that the Ukrainian government has used to back up its assertion that
people implicated in war crimes should not be allowed to get away with
it
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