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Associated Press: Thousands attend warlord’s funeral in Ukraine’s rebel east

By Associated Press.

Published Oct. 19, 2016 at 3:28 pm

A man walks past flowers left in memory of pro-Russian rebel commander Arseny Pavlov, known as "Motorola", near the crime site in Donetsk on October 17, 2016.

Photo by AFP PHOTO / Aleksey FILIPPOV

MOSCOW – Thousands have turned out for the funeral of a senior commander of pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine, who was killed in a bomb blast.

Arsen Pavlov, 33, known under his nom de guerre Motorola, was killed on Oct. 16 when an unidentified device exploded in an elevator of his apartment building in Donetsk. Rebel officials blamed the explosion on Ukrainian saboteurs.