A bomb detonated in the lobby of a luxury apartment building in Moscow, killing Armen Sarkisyan, a senior pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine. Four others were injured in the attack, which Russian authorities are calling an assassination attempt. Sarkisyan was accused by Ukraine of aiding Russia's war effort in the Donetsk region.
A bomb tore through the lobby of a luxury apartment block in Moscow on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring four others in an attack targeting a pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine, the state TASS news agency reported. Armen Sarkisyan, a senior pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine, died in hospital on Monday after being critically injured in the bomb blast, Russia’s Kommersant newspaper said.
citing law enforcement services, called the blast an “assassination attempt” and identified the suspected target as Armen Sarkisyan, who is accused by Ukraine of aiding Russia’s war effort in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk. RIA, another state news agency, cited law enforcement as saying that Sarkisyan was in a critical condition, and that part of his leg was being amputated. “The assassination attempt on Sarkisyan was carefully planned and was ordered.
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