Militia commander Motorola killed in eastern Ukraine

One of the commanders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic’s defense forces, Arsen Pavlov, better known under the alias Motorola, has been killed in an explosion after a bomb reportedly went off inside the elevator of the apartment building in eastern Ukraine.

The DNR’s ministry of defense confirmed the death of Arsen Pavlov, who led one of the self-defense units resisting the Ukrainian government forces in the beginning of the conflict in Donbas.