"The car of the chief of LPR People`s Militia Office, Oleg Anashchenko, exploded… There were two people in the car, both are dead. According to the preliminary data, one of them is Anashchenko," the police press service said.
A source in the law enforcement told Sputnik that the blast occurred at about 8 a.m. (06:00 GMT).
On October 16, a blast in an elevator killed a prominent commander of the Donetsk People`s Republics colonel Arseniy Pavlov (call sign Motorola). The Donetsk authorities accused Kiev of masterminding the murder.
In May, a top military commander of the Lugansk People`s Republics, Alexei Mozgovoi, was assassinated by unknown gunmen when his car ran into an ambush.
The Donbass conflict erupted in April 2014 as a local counter-reaction to the West-sponsored Maidan coup in Kiev that had toppled legitimate President Viktor Yanukovych in February. Residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions held independence referendums and proclaimed the People`s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. Kiev has since been conducting a military operation, encountering stiff local resistance.
In February 2015, Kiev forces and Donbass independence supporters signed a peace agreement in the Belarusian capital of Minsk. The deal stipulates a full ceasefire, weapons withdrawal from the line of contact in Donbass, as well as constitutional reforms that would give a special status to the Donetsk and Lugansk People`s Republics. Despite the agreement, the ceasefire regime is regularly violated, with both sides accusing each other of multiple breaches, undermining the terms of the accord.
Car blast in Lugansk may have killed Republic`s Senior Commander - UPDATED
04 February 2017
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A car blast in the capital of the Lugansk People`s Republic in Donbass on Saturday killed two people.
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