UPDATE: Bomb explosion in Moscow kills pro-Russian paramilitary leader: A pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine, Armen Sarkisyan, was killed on Monday when a bomb tore through parts of a luxury apartment block in Moscow

https://tvpworld.com/84817629/bomb-explosion-in-moscow-kills-pro-russian-paramilitary-leader

by Alien_P3rsp3ktiv

8 comments

  1. Darn. Aw Shucks. I am so sad. I will never get over it. /S 😂😂

  2. Highlights:

    *(…) state news agency TASS and other Russian media reported.*

    *TASS called the bombing a well-planned assassination.*

    *The bomb detonated just as Sarkisyan, accompanied by his bodyguards, entered the basement of the “Scarlet Sails” complex on the banks of the Moskva River just 12 km (7 miles) from the Kremlin, according to Russian media.*

    *One bodyguard was killed and three more injured, Kommersant newspaper said.*

    *In December, Ukraine’s SBU security service described Sarkisyan as a crime boss in the Donetsk region, much of which has been controlled by Moscow since 2014, and said that he was officially suspected of participating in and aiding “illegal armed groups”.*

    *Mediazona, an independent Russian outlet that covers law enforcement, reported that Armenian-born Sarkisyan had been a longtime organized crime figure in the Donetsk region city of Horlivka.*

    *In 2022, it said, he founded a pro-Russian paramilitary unit composed mostly of his fellow ethnic Armenians to fight against Kyiv’s forces.
    In December, Ukraine took credit for the
    killing of Russian General Igor Kirillov in a bomb blast outside a Moscow apartment building. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine on Monday’s blast.*

    Other sources:

    [Yanukovych-Linked Crime Boss Assassinated in Posh Moscow Apartment Complex: Armen Sarkisyan was on Ukraine’s wanted list as one of the organizers of the Maidan killings in February 2014. He appears to have been targeted along with two others linked to Yanukovych. *KyivPost, Feb. 3, 2025*](https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46505). Highlights:

    *Sarkisyan, also known as “Gorlovsky,” was reportedly blown up at in the Alye Parusa luxury residential complex in northwest Moscow in an explosion that reportedly occurred at 9:45 a.m. local time.*

    *Russian media speculated that a grenade or improvised explosive device based on a grenade had been detonated. Emergency services and bomb-sniffing dogs were deployed to the scene.*

    *Olga Voronova, a resident of a neighboring building, told AFP that she struggled to understand how such an attack could have occurred, given the area’s strict security. She added that guards thoroughly inspected every car at checkpoints and required residents to request passes even for family members.*

  5. Oh no.

    Anyhow, it’s a little chillier than usual out today. How’s the weather by you?

  6. Other reports have him dying several hours later in the hospital. Which I find heartening because it means he likely suffered before succumbing to his wounds.

  7. Best part here is we don’t know if it’s Ukraine who blew him up, his criminal buddies or russia.

    And that’s been the fate of traitors in Donetsk/Luhansk, a lot of them got killed one way or another

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