Former defense minister of separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic arrested in Moscow

Media reports say a prominent Russian pro-war blogger Igor Girkin, who also goes by the nom de guerre Igor Strelkov, was arrested in Moscow on July 21. CNN reports that Girkin is a former colonel in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and served as defense minister in the separatist so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »