A tweet from Lithuania's foreign minister, who, incidentally, also spoke to RFE/RL today about Russia's involvement in Syria:
We've re-upped this 2015 video by RFE/RL's Current Time TV on the claims that Motorola summarily executed Ukrainian prisoners.
Ukrainian Soldier Described Separatist Commander 'Motorola' Executing POWs
Russian media reports that a commander of Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has been killed by an explosion in his apartment building in Donetsk. Arseny Pavlov, a Russian citizen who went by the nickname "Motorola," led a separatist unit known as the Sparta battalion. Kyiv had accused him of war crimes for killing prisoners of war. In an interview with RFE/RL's Current Time TV in 2015, a Ukrainian soldier said he witnessed Motorola executing a fellow POW named Ihor. Motorola once boasted in an interview with the Kyiv Post that he killed prisoners. But when questioned by RFE/RL, he denied that he executed POWs.
A tweet from a news editor at the BBC World Service
A Kyiv Post editor gives some pretty short shrift to a tweet by a Kremlin-funded media outlet: