{"id":3677,"date":"2025-02-03T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/explosion-in-upscale-moscow-apartment-complex-reportedly-kills-ukrainian-separatist-wanted-by-kyiv\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:29:40","slug":"explosion-in-upscale-moscow-apartment-complex-reportedly-kills-ukrainian-separatist-wanted-by-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/explosion-in-upscale-moscow-apartment-complex-reportedly-kills-ukrainian-separatist-wanted-by-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion in upscale Moscow apartment complex reportedly kills Ukrainian separatist wanted by Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>An east Ukrainian crime boss and separatist wanted by Kyiv was killed with one other person in a blast at a luxury residential complex in Moscow on Monday, Russian media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Armen Sarkisian, a known mafia boss from east Ukraine who had formed a battalion to fight against Kyiv, is the latest target in a string of explosions on Russian soil.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been hit by a series of killings and mysterious blasts since launching its <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/ukraine-crisis\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">offensive in Ukraine<\/a><\/span> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkisian has been wanted by Kyiv since 2014 and Ukraine&#8217;s SBU security service had in December declared him a suspect in &#8220;recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sarkisian died in hospital after an assassination in Moscow,&#8221; the TASS news agency reported, after Russian media initially said he was seriously wounded in the blast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russian police earlier said one other person was killed in the &#8220;incident&#8221; at the complex in northwest Moscow. \u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"TOPSHOT-RUSSIA-UKRAINE-CONFLICT-EXPLOSION \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/03\/7dee11af-d391-4b29-b8a3-7896144dffea\/thumbnail\/620x413g8\/9a24cca018c1b07189d24888f46846d6\/gettyimages-2196885021.jpg?v=a599723035d2f104d7a2d01edbe96ef8 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/03\/7dee11af-d391-4b29-b8a3-7896144dffea\/thumbnail\/1240x826g8\/117ca2b4c3d9d76456b70c6ee55bbe74\/gettyimages-2196885021.jpg?v=a599723035d2f104d7a2d01edbe96ef8 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Russian law enforcement officers stand in front of the damaged entrance to a residential building following a blast in Moscow on February 3, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                TATYANA MAKEYEVA\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Kremlin said special services were working at the scene and declined to comment while &#8220;information was being clarified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv had not yet commented.<\/p>\n<p>In December, it said it was behind the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/igor-kirillov-russia-nuclear-defense-forces-head-killed-moscow-explosion\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">killing of Russian army general Igor Kirillov<\/a><\/span> in Moscow, its most audacious attack to date. Last May, the U.S. State Department\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/imposing-new-measures-on-russia-for-its-full-scale-war-and-use-of-chemical-weapons-against-ukraine-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced sanctions<\/a>\u00a0against Kirillov&#8217;s unit, saying the U.S. had recorded the use of chloropicrin, a poison gas first deployed in World War I, against Ukrainian troops.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;I am very scared&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Kommersant newspaper reported that an &#8220;explosive device went off when he (Sarkisian) entered the building with security guards,&#8221; adding that one of the guards had died.<\/p>\n<p>Footage released by Russia&#8217;s main investigative agency, the Investigative Committee, showed a building hall with glass doors shattered and suspended ceilings torn up.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee said it opened a criminal probe into the explosion on the charges of murder by means injurious to the public and attempted murder of two or more people.<\/p>\n<p>The red-brick high-rise building was closed off by police and a helicopter was seen arriving at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Andrei, a 37-year-old manager who was nearby at the time, said his colleagues had &#8220;jumped from their seats&#8221; at the sound of the blast, before going outside and seeing smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion was the second killing on the streets of Moscow in less than two months, with Kirillov dying after an explosive device attached to a scooter went off outside a residential building.<\/p>\n<p>Olga Voronova, a 36-year-old mother of three who lived in the building next door to the explosion, was worried.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very scared,&#8221; she told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand how this happened, we have quite serious security guards, they ask every car at the checkpoints, we order passes for guests, even for family members,&#8221; the shaken woman said. &#8220;So I don&#8217;t understand all this, it&#8217;s very scary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russian media said Sarkisian had in 2022 formed a unit named &#8220;ArBAT&#8221; to fight against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the SBU, Sarkisian was &#8220;close&#8221; to Ukraine&#8217;s ousted ex-leader Viktor Yanukovych and has been on a wanted list since 2014, accused of &#8220;organizing murders&#8221; during Kyiv&#8217;s pro-EU revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The SBU said Sarkisian oversaw prisons in the occupied Donetsk region, from which he recruited convicts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Efforts are underway to bring the offender to justice for his crimes against Ukraine,&#8221; it said in December. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kommersant reported that the unit Sarkisian had formed was made up of &#8220;around 500 people&#8221;, most of whom are ethnic Armenians. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Russian media, Sarkisian was born in Armenia but moved to east Ukraine&#8217;s city of Gorlivka at a young age and also used the pseudonym of Armen Gorlovsky, a reference to the industrial city.<\/p>\n<p>Gorlivka has been under pro-Russian separatist control since 2014. \u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Other targeted attacks<\/h2>\n<p>Since Russia invaded, several prominent figures have been killed in targeted attacks believed to have been carried out by Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>In December, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5y867penn8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bomb planted under a car<\/a> in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Donetsk killed Sergei Yevsyukov, the former head of the Olenivka Prison where dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war died in a missile strike in July 2022. One other person was injured in the blast. Russian authorities said they detained a suspect in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Darya Dugina, a commentator on Russian TV channels and the daughter of Kremlin-linked nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/daria-dugina-car-explosion-killed-russia-daughter-alexander-dugin\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">died in a 2022 car bombing<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that investigators suspected was aimed at her father.<\/p>\n<p>Vladlen Tatarsky, a popular military blogger,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/st-petersburg-bomb-cafe-military-blogger-vladlen-tatarsky\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">died in April 2023<\/a><\/span>, when a statuette given to him at a party in St. Petersburg exploded. A Russian woman, who said she presented the figurine on orders of a contact in Ukraine,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/darya-trepova-accused-killing-pro-war-blogger-vladlen-tatarsky-faces-28-years-russian-prison\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">was convicted<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and sentenced to 27 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2023, Illia Kiva, a former pro-Moscow Ukrainian lawmaker who fled to Russia,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/illia-kyva-pro-kremlin-ukrainian-politician-assassinated-near-moscow\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">was shot and killed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0near Moscow. 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