Armen Sarkisjan is hospitalized in a serious condition in an intensive care unit and undergoes surgery.
In the explosion of an unknown facility in a high -rise residential building in the northeast of Moscow, the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic of Donetsk (DĽR) Armen Sarkisjan was seriously injured. His body guard died in the explosion. Three other persons are seriously injured. According to TASS, TASR reports this.
According to the source of the Russian agency, Sarkisjan is hospitalized in a serious condition in an intensive care unit and undergoes surgery. The source claims that the explosion was caused by an unknown device located in the elevator shaft. Pyrotechnics and forensic experts work on the spot.
Criminal prosecution
The Russian authorities stated that criminal prosecution was initiated in connection with the explosion, but did not give on what accusations. The images published by the main Russian investigation agency were seen on the building lobby of the building after the explosion, including broken windows.
Sarkisjan, also known as the nickname Gorlovkskij, is originally Armenia and, according to the Russian investigative portal Insider, is one of the organized crime in the Ukrainian Donbas. According to the portal, he had contacts with people around the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and, during democratic protests in Majdan, organized troublemakers who helped the regime in their suppression. After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2014 he worked in the separatist DRR, where he allegedly managed prisons.
The Donetsk People’s Republic in the east of Ukraine declared independence on April 7, 2014. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Moscow was annexed on September 29, 2022, along with three other Ukrainian areas.
Pick Arbat
After the beginning of the nationwide invasion of Russia on Ukraine Sarkisjan, according to AFP, founded from ethnic armenians fighting on the side of Russia Volunteer Regiment Arbat. According to Insider portal, he worked on the front line near the Ukrainian city of Toreck and later in the Russian Kursk region.
The Armenian government recently accused the regiment of participating in a frustrated attempt at a coup d’état last September.
