The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic reported earlier Motorola died in an explosion in an elevator on his way home on October 16. They immediately said Ukrainian a reconnaissance-and-sabotage group was behind the killing.
Earlier, Russian media reported that in the elevator of the house where Arsen Pavlov lived , a bomb exploded yesterday. The militant, who was at the site of the explosion, suffered severe wounds from which he died. Citizen of Russia Pavlov arrived at Donbass in 2014 and led there the illegal armed formation - battalion "Sparta" that was one of units of military formation of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). In the DPR accuse some "Ukrainian sabotage and intelligence group" of killing the militant, in the Interior Ministry of Ukraine say responsibility for this lay on the associates of Arsen Pavlov.