MOSCOW – He bragged about being a cold-blooded killer, and videotaped battles with his helmet cam. And along the way, this former car wash worker became an unlikely, pro-Kremlin media star in rebel-held Ukraine – where he met his end late October 16 in a mysterious explosion that roared up the elevator shaft in his apartment building.
The death of Arsen Pavlov, 33, better known by his nom de guerre “Motorola,” brought blame-trading on both sides of the conflict between Ukraine’s Western-allied government and rebel factions with ties to Russia.
