
In the Luhansk region, "People’s Police" - militants of the head of the "Lugansk People's Republic" Igor Plotnitsky - shot a motorcade of the field commander Alexander Bednov, also known under the call sign "Batman". This was announced in his LiveJournal, citing eyewitnesses of eyewitnesses by blogger Boris Rozhin, who regularly publishes news reports from the perspective of the LPR terrorists and the DPR.
“This morning, the militia commander Alexander Bednov (Batman) was killed in Lugansk. Alexander Alexandrovich Bednov began his battle path with only 20 fighters. He created the battalion. He shot him vile in the morning. Heavenly kingdom,” said Marat Musin, military correspondent and editor of the Anna -News agency.
The Prosecutor General of the LPR in its press release confirmed the death of Bamen. "Under the Lugansk employees of the LPR national police, active members of the Batman GBR with the call sign" Maniac "," Fobus "," Omega ". The head of the call sign" Batman "during the detention, was actively resisted by special units and was killed."
According to the website "Russian Spring", the shelling of the motorcade was led from machine guns and manual grenade launchers. Exhaustly different sources reported that Bednov was either killed or arrested by the "authorities" of the LPR. Numerous evidence was confirmed by the death of his guards, including militants with the call sign “Cat” (it is emphasized that he was a volunteer from Russia), “razor”, “gold” and “Vityaz”. It was also reported about the detention of Batman’s wife and militants with the call sign “Fobus”, “maniac” and “omega”.
“It is obvious that this was not an attempt to arrest, but a focused murder,” Rozhin wrote.
The editor -in -chief of the Forum.MSK.ru publication Anatoly Baranov without reference to sources said that representatives of the Russian special services attacked the Batman motorcade, and he himself was perhaps taken to Russia. “The forces of the Russian units are stripping an“ informal ”militia,” Baranov wrote.
According to the Ukrainian publication, the Observer, before the beginning of hostilities in the Donbass, Alexander Bednov worked as a security guard in the Lugansk Night Club "Coliseum", before that he served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He took part in armed conflicts in the territory of the former USSR, including in Abkhazia and Nagorno -Karabakh.
Conflicts between various groups of LPR militants have repeatedly occurred earlier. In December last year, the employees of the Russian special services were stolen and taken to Russia by Cossack chieftain Nikolai Kozitsyn, whose detachment was held by the city of Anthracite. It was reported that during the detention of Kozitsyn, two of his guards were also killed.
On December 29, the militants of the Cossack National Guard LPR recorded a video message "to Putin and his shakings." In the video of the field commander Pavel Dremov, surrounded by supporters, accused the “head of the republic” of Igor Plotnitsky of “stealing the compositions with coal every day.” Dremov promised to confirm his statements with documents, and also said that more than one and a half people who are ready to turn the weapon against Plotnitsky’s militants serve in the regiment he commanded.