In which oblasts of Ukraine did the Sparta Battalion fight the Ukrainian army?
Arsen Pavlov Arsen (Arseny) Sergeyevich Pavlov (Russian: Арсе́н Серге́евич Па́влов ; 2 February 1983 – 16 October 2016), known by his "nom de guerre" Motorola (Моторо́ла), was a Russian citizen who led the Sparta Battalion, an armed group fighting the Ukrainian army, in the ongoing War in Donbass.
Dominopol massacre Dominopol (Ukrainian: Доминополь ) no longer exists. On July 11, 1943, at the height of the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia, the village was attacked by a death squad of Ukrainian Insurgent Army aided by the Ukrainian peasants, and all ethnic Poles regardless of age and gender were tortured and murdered. Before World War II, Dominopol was a village in the Eastern regions of the Second Polish Republic, located in the Gmina Werba, Powiat Włodzimierz of the Wołyń Voivodeship. The area was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939 and during Operation Barbarossa annexed by Nazi Germany into "Reichskommissariat Ukraine" in 1941. The Dominopol location is now in the area of Volodymyr-Volynskyi Raion of the Volyn Oblast in sovereign Ukraine.