An explosion that crossed a hall of the residential complex in the northeast Moscow killed a pro-Kremlin paramilitary leader in eastern Ukraine on Monday, reported the medical authorities, citing the medical authorities and responsible for law application.
Armen Sarkisyan, founder of the irregular battalion of Arbat, died after being hospitalized in critical condition, reported the TASS news agency managed by the State. The Russian Inquiry Committee, which probes the main crimes, then confirmed its death.
According to the Kommersant Business Daily, one of Sarkisyan’s bodyguards was also killed in the explosion. Five people were injured overall, he added.
Video shared by law enforcement officials watch Significant damage in the hall of the residential complex of Scarlet Sails on the banks of the Moscow river.
The TASS news agency managed by the State, citing managers of the application of unnamed laws, reported that the bomb attack had been “orderly and carefully planned”, but did not specify who was suspected of having been behind the explosion.
Investigators said They were on the scene of the explosion as part of a criminal investigation. Kommersant noted that the probe could be reclassified as a terrorism if evidence emerges from the suspicion of Ukrainian involvement.
Kommersant reported that the Arbat Battalion of Sarkisyan, which is fighting on the side of Russia in his war against Ukraine, is made up of around 500 people, most of whom are ethnic Armenians.
According to the Russian media, Sarkisyan was born in Armenia but moved to the Eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka at a young age.
In addition to directing irregular military unity, the Russian media described Sarkisyan as the head of the boxing federation in the Donetsk region occupied by Russia, east of Ukraine.
Ukraine issuing An international arrest warrant for Sarkisyan in 2014 for violence against pro-EU demonstrators. Ukraine SBU security services describe He as a “criminal authority” with links with former president Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia in 2014.
In December, Kyiv registered Sarkisyan as a suspect in an ongoing investigation into the recruitment of prisoner fighters by Russia for the war.
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