The leader of the Projska paramilitary group in Eastern Ukraine died at the hospital after being injured in an explosion in Moscow on Monday morning, Russian media said.
Armen Sargsyan, the Arbat Battalion leader, was seriously injured after an explosion in the entrance hall of the residential building in northwestern Moscow, 12 km (7 miles) from Kremlin.
The helicopter evacuated him to the hospital and put it in intensive care after the explosion, but eventually succumbed to his injuries, according to the usual reliable sources of telegram.
Others – including one of the bodyguards of Armen Sargsyan – were also allegedly seriously injured, and some sources said that another person had died.
In December, the SBU Ukrainian safety service said that Mr. Sargsyan’s “Head of Crime” was a suspect in “hiring prisoners to fight in Ukraine”, adding that since May 2014 he was on the International List of Search for his involvement in the murder. Kiev.
SBU added that Mr. Sargsyan was part of the inner circle of the runaway former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich.
“The attempt to assassination on Sarkisyan was carefully planned and was ordered. Investigators are currently identifying those who ordered the crime,” the TASS law clerk quoted.
Pictures that are divided on social networks show ruins and plaster tried over a strongly damaged entrance hall with exhausted windows and doors.
Olga Voronova, a 36-year-old mother of three who lived in an explosion building, told the AFP news agency that she was “very scared” and did not understand how the explosion could happen.
“We have pretty serious security guards, they ask every car at checkpoints, we order passes for guests, even for family members,” she said.
Mr. Sargsyan was born in Gorlovka, a city in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, which Russia has occupied since 2014.
In Telegram, who confirmed his death, the mayor of the city, Ivan Prikhodko, said that “Mr. Sargsyan’s most significant achievement was the creation and leadership of a separate battalion of special forces.”
Mr. Prikhodko said that Mr. Sargsyan is also the head of the boxing federation of the self -proclaimed National Republic of Donetsk.
It is known that the “Arbat” battalion operated in the Russian region of the fuck, where the Ukrainian troops were still present after they launched a surprising offensive in August.
There were several attacks on the high supporters of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Moscow and in occupied areas.
Senior Russian Navy officer Valery Trakovsky and Russian prison chief Sergei Yevsyukov died after the car bombs exploded in Ukraine occupied Russian late 2024.
And in December, a high general in the Russian armed forces and his assistant was killed in Moscow by Ukrainian security servicesaid the Ukrainian source for the BBC.