Pro-Russia paramilitary leader killed in Moscow blast

Armen Sarkisyan, a pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine, was killed in a bomb blast at a luxury apartment in Moscow, according to Russia's state-owned TASS news agency. Ukrainian sources suggest that the explosion was a well-planned assassination, with multiple people reportedly injured, including Sarkisyan. Sarkisyan was the leader of the Arbat Battalion, a separatist militia group fighting in eastern Ukraine, and was described by Ukrainian Defense Intelligence as a "well-known criminal mastermind."