DONETSK, Ukraine: The military chief of a self-proclaimed Russian-backed republic in eastern Ukraine was killed in an “act of terror” Wednesday, the latest victim of a string of similar attacks, local authorities said.
The dead man was Mikhail Tolstykh, head of the notorious “Somali” battalion and a leading commander of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, the rebels’ spokesman told AFP.
“There has been an act of terror and Givi was killed,” Eduard Basurin said, using the nom de guerre which Tolstykh was better known by.
He declined to provide more details but local reports said there was an explosion in his office at …read more
Source: theSun
