Donetsk, Apr 7 – DAN. DPR Ministry of State Security (MGB) identified the mastermind of the murders of DPR Heroes Arsen Pavlov (call-sign Motorola) and Mikhail Tolstykh (call-sign Givi), said the Ministry's press service, attributing the crimes to the head of counter intelligence department of Security service of Ukraine Aleksey Petrov.
"DPR MGB has obtained reliable facts allowing to identify the mastermind of DPR Armed Forces commanders Motorola and Givi and other major terror attacks in the Republic; a high-rank officer of the Security service of Ukraine - head of counter intelligence department Aleksey Petrov."
It was established that Petrov, who was deputy head of the department at the time, was tasked with formation and supervision of special units which carried out terror attacks in DPR.
"After the Givi's murder Poroshenko promoted Aleksey Petrov to the head of the department to appraise his achievements, which are in fact crimes against DPR. This fact shows that Poroshenko himself sanctions murders of DPR citizens," the Ministry said.
The Ministry said it was going to put maximum efforts in prosecuting the mastermind and preventing other terrorist groups from infiltrating into DPR.
Mikhail Tolstykh was killed in an explosion of a round fired with an infantry man-portable flame-thrower Shmel on 8 February.
He was born in Ilovaisk in 1980 and joined DPR militia from the very beginning of Donbass war, participating in the battles for Slavyansk, Ilovaisk and Donetsk airport.
Arsen Pavlov was killed on October, 16th in the blast of an explosive device planted in the hallway of the block of flats in central Donetsk where he lived.
He was born in Komi, northern Russia, in 1983. He lived in Rostov-on-Don. Calling himself 'Motorola', he became the leader of the Sparta Battalion, fighting in the war in Donbass against Kiev junta. *ot