On Monday, the Russian media killed the Eastern -Ukrainian crime and separatist, who sought Kiev with another man in an explosion at a luxury residential complex in Moscow.
Armen Sargissian, a well -known mafion boss from Eastern Ukraine, who created a battalion to combat Kiev, is the last goal in the lines of explosions on Russian soil.
Since the launch of Russia has suffered a number of murders and mysterious bombings offensive in Ukraine In 2022.
Kiev was conditioned by Sarkisian, and in December Ukraine was advocated by the SBU Security Service, announced him a suspect in “a set of prisoners to fight in Ukraine”.
“Sargissians died at the hospital after murder in Moscow,” TASS reports, after Russian media initially stated that he was seriously injured in the blast.
Russian police have previously stated that another person was killed in an “incident” at a complex in the northwest of Moscow.
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The Kremlin said that special services worked at the scene and refused to comment while “information was clarified”.
Kyiv has not yet commented.
December said it was for Murder of General of Russian Army Igor Kirilov In Moscow, its most daring attack today. Last May US Department of US Sanctions are announced Against the Kirilov unit, the US had recorded the use of chloride, poisonous gas, for the first time deployed in the First World War, against Ukrainian troops.
“I'm very afraid”
The Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that “the explosive device went out when it (Sargissians) entered the building with guards”, adding that one of the guards died.
The frames issued by the main investigative agency of Russia, the Investigative Committee, showed a construction hall with glass doors, destroyed and suspended ceilings.
The Committee said he opened a criminal probe of an explosion on charges of murder through the public and attempted murder of two or more people.
Police were closed with red brick, and the helicopter was seen at the scene.
Andrei, a 37-year-old manager, who was nearby at the time, said his colleagues had “jumped out of the places” from the Sound of the Blast before going outside and see the smoke.
The blast became the second murder on the streets of Moscow in less than two months, when Cyril died after an explosive device attached to the scooter, went beyond the residential building.
Olga Varanova, a 36-year-old mother of three children who lived in a nearby building, was worried.
“I'm very afraid,” she said AFP.
“I don't understand how it happened, we have pretty serious guards.” So, I don't understand all this, it's very scary. “
Russian media stated that in 2022, Sargissians created a unit called “Arbat” to fight Ukraine.
According to the SBU, Sarcissian was “close” to the overthrow of Ukraine, ex-leader Viktor Yanukovych and is on the list since 2014, accused of “organizing murder” during the EU Revolution.
The SBU stated that the Sarkisian reailed prisons in the occupied Donetsk, from which he recruited the convicts.
“Efforts are made to bring the criminal to justice for crimes against Ukraine,” December said.
Kommersant said the formation of the Sargissian unit consisted of “about 500 people”, most of which are ethnic Armenians.
According to Russian media, Sargissians were born in Armenia, but at a young age he moved to the city of Eastern Ukraine Horvili, and also used the pseudonym of Armen Gorlovsky, links to the industrial city.
Harly has been under pro -Russian separatist control since 2014.
Other targeted attacks
Ever since Russia has invaded, several famous figures have been killed in targeted attacks, which are believed to have been conducted by Ukraine.
In December, a bomb planted under the machine In a busy Russian Ukrainian city, Donetsk killed Sergei Yevyakov, former head of the Olenovka prison, where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners were killed in a missile strike in July 2022. Another person was injured as a result of the blast. The Russian authorities said they detained the suspect in the attack.
Darius Dugin, commentator of Russian TV channels and daughter of a nationalist Kremlin ideologist Alexander Dugin, died in the bombing on a car 2022 The fact that the suspects were aimed at her father.
Vladlen Tatar, popular military blogger, died in April 2023When a statuette given to him at a party in St. Petersburg exploded. A Russian woman who said she presented a statuette on contact in Ukraine, has been convicted and sentenced to 27 years in prison.
In December 2023, Elijah Kiva, a former pro-Ukrainian legislator who fled to Russia, was shot and killed Near Moscow. The Ukrainian military intelligence excited the murder, warning that other “traitors of Ukraine” will share the same fate.