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Ukraine: Kiev agents ‘killed anti-fascist leader,’ says DPR ministry

AUTHORITIES in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said yesterday that an anti-fascist resistance leader had been assassinated at home by Ukrainian agents.

The DPR Defence Ministry said Spart battalion commander Arsen Pavlov, known as “Motorola,” was killed on Sunday by a bomb planted in the lift of his block of flats.

“According to preliminary information, Motorola was killed as a result of a terrorist operation of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group,” the ministry said.

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