Top rebel commander killed in east Ukraine - report

KIEV (Reuters) - Aleksey Mozgovoi, a top rebel commander in east Ukraine, has been killed along with around six others in an attack by an unknown group of assailants, the press service for the separatist Luhansk territory (LITs) reported on Saturday.

Mozgovoi, the leader of the rebel "Ghost" battalion, died after the car he was travelling in was blown up by an "explosive device and then fired on with machine guns," rebel official Sergei Gorenko was quoted as saying in a briefing in Luhansk.