DONETSK, Ukraine: A military chief of Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebels, Arseny Pavlov, was killed Sunday in a bomb attack in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, local authorities said, calling it a “declaration of war”.
Russia, which annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, backs a separatist, pro-Moscow insurgency in eastern Ukraine that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
Pavlov, better known by his nom de guerre ‘Motorola’, led the Sparta battalion and was a leading rebel commander.
Alexander Zakharchenko, the “prime minister” of the self-styled Donetsk People’s Republic, said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko “has breached the ceasefire and declared war”.
Pavlov was killed by a bomb placed in …read more
Source: theSun
