A strong explosion occurred in Moscow, in the upscale residential complex, with at least one dead. The Russian media and the Telegram channels claim that this is an attempted assassination against Armen Sarkissian, the founder of the battalion having fought the Ukrainian forces.
On Monday morning, an explosion occurred in the hall of a upper residential complex in the northwest of Moscow. According to Interfax, Doctors and police have confirmed a person’s death and four others were injured.
According to initial information, the target of the assassination attempt was Armen Sarkissian44, also known as Armen Gorlovsky. According to open sources, he headed the self-proclaimed boxing federation “People’s Republic of Donetsk” (pro-Russian separatist) and was the founder of the special Arbat battalion who fought the Ukrainian forces in Donbass.
In December 2024, Sarkissian was accused by the Ukrainian authorities of recruiting prisoners from the Donetsk region to fight Ukraine. It has been reported that the so-called “temporarily occupied territories supervisor from the Donetsk, Louhansk, Zaporijia and Kherson” regions helped the occupation authorities create illegal armed groups among the prisoners.
The Ukrainian media, citing the Ukraine security service, described it as“Criminal godfather” Close to the fallen president Viktor Ianoukovytch.
Since 2014, Sarkissian has been sought by the Ukrainian authorities, because he is suspected of having organized the brigades of the “Titouchkys” which terrorized the pro-European demonstrators during the “Maidan Revolution” (revolution of dignity).
The body of the deceased has not yet been identified. Previously, the Telegram Baza chain, linked to the Russian security services, had written that Mr. Sarkissian had survived and was hospitalized in a hospital in Moscow“The victim of the explosion could be his bodyguard.
Later, information reported the death of Mr. Sarkissian. According to a source close to the Russian police forces, the founder of Arbat “died in intensive care without having regained consciousness”. The preliminary cause of death is a penetrating injury by bursts of brews in the chest, in the region of the heart.
According to eyewitnesses, the explosion in the “Alye Parousa” subdivision (Scarlet sailsS, title of a well -known book by Alexandre Grine, the name has become a romantic escape cliché) occurred when one of the residents entered the building with the goalkeeper. Beforehand, a radio -controlled explosive device was triggered in the building of the building, the Russian media reported.
The deminers check the other parts and the surroundings of the apartments complex where the explosion has occurred and study the video surveillance cameras, the police said.
On December 17, 2024, the Russian general Igor Kirillovwho directed the defense for radiation forces, chemicals and biologicals, was killed in the explosion of a remote -controlled bomb As he left a building in Moscow.
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