Blown Up Terrorist Leader Dies In Moscow Hospital

He was involved in the activities of ‘thugs for hire’ at the Ukrainian Maidan.

President of the ‘DPR’ boxing federation and creator of the ‘Arbat’ battalion Armen Sarkisyan died in the intensive care unit of one of the Moscow hospitals, report Russian media.

We remind you, today there has been an explosion in the ‘Alye Parusa’ residential complex in Moscow. Russian law enforcers said that according to revised data, as a result of the explosion, Armen Sarkisyan, also known as Armen Gorlovsky, was seriously injured. He is the organiser of the Maidan ‘thugs for hire’ and the creator of the ‘Armenian Battalion’ in the war against Ukraine.

In December 2024, Armen Sarkisyan was reported on suspicion for recruiting Donetsk Region prisoners for the war against Ukraine. It was reported that the so-called overseer of the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions helped the occupation authorities to create illegal armed formations out of prisoners.

Armen Sarkisyan, a 44-year-old native of the currently occupied Horlivka, has been wanted since 2014 on suspicion of organising Maidan ‘thugs for hire’. According to the investigation, on 17 February 2014, acting in the interests of former Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko and his business partners, he instructed Yuriy Krysin to find 200-300 people to ‘protect public order’ in the government quarter, which led to the murder of journalist Vyacheslav Veremiya.

According to Yuriy Krysin, he then received $20,000 from Armen Sarkisian ‘for protecting the government quarter’. Krysin distributed 1,000 hryvnias each to his accomplices and kept the rest for himself. A Ukrainian court sentenced Yuriy Krysin to 5 years in prison. He later received a second sentence on suspicion of organising the torture of Maidan activists on the instructions of a Yanukovych-era businessman who is hiding in Russia, Oleksiy Chebotaryov. In total, Krysin will be in prison until 2026.

In the summer of 2019, Yuriy Krysin tried to change his testimony and remove from it the mention of Armen Sarkisyan, emphasising that he had allegedly denounced him because of a financial conflict. This happened on the eve of considering the cassation appeal.

At the time of Yanukovych, Sarkisyan was an influential criminal authority nicknamed ‘Armen Gorlovsky’, close to former MP from the ‘Party of Regions’ Yuri Ivanyushchenko (Yura Yenakievsky). The latter was taken off the wanted list in 2019, with reference to the decision of the Prosecutor's office to close the proceedings. Sarkisyan is also called the shadow overseer of all business in occupied Horlivka. He has his own cafes there and organises the opening of boxing clubs. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate, he has been looting and engaged in ‘gunpoint extortion’ of businesses in the occupied territories of Ukraine since 24 February.

In 2018, Ukrainian law enforcers reported the alleged detention of Sarkisyan in France, however - then they said that it was not the same person. The information about the detention was also denied by the suspect himself, noting that he is in Russia.

The media also published a photo of Armen Sarkisyan with Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov's right-hand man, Russian State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov.

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