Another explosive attack in the heart of Fly led to the killing of the head of a Allied militia of the Russian army in the conflict in Donbasswanted by Ukrainian secret services. A month and a half after theattack claimed by Kiev in which the general was killed in December Igor Kirillova similar action caused the death of Armen Sarkisianskipped in the air with a bodyguard in the entry of theALYE PARUSA (the Scarlet sails), a luxurious residential skyscraper 29 floors located in the north-west of the capital.
At the same time the forces of Kiev they launched dozens of drones against energy infrastructure hundreds of kilometers inside the Russian territory, causing fires in an oil refinery a Vulgograd and in a gas processing system ad Astrakhan. Both defined by Ukrainian General Staff as “important fuel producers for the Russian army”.
All this after yesterday the President Volodymyr Zelensky he had shown all his nervousness for a possible exclusion of Kiev by negotiations among the USA and the Russiawarning that this could be “dangerous for everyone”. Which however did not prevent the Kremlin to combine his voice with that of Di Keith Kelloggthe correspondent of the US President Donald Trumpin asking presidential elections in Ukraine in view of a peace treaty that according to Fly it could not be signed by the same Zelenskyconsidered “illegitimate”.
The Russian investigators they said that Armen Sarkisian He died in the hospital after being injured in theattack of this morning. THE’explosion He caused the instant death of one of his bodyguards, while three other people were injured. Unknown to international media, Sarkisianwho was 46 years old, had been the founder in 2022 of the militia arbat to fight alongside the Russian forces against Ukrainians in the region of Donetsk. Here he had arrived in his youth from his native Armeniaand we say that Armenians were most of the volunteers who had enrolled in his training.
The Ukrainian secret service SBUwhich he had defined Sarkisian “A crime boss,” he said last month that he used to recruit militants in prisons. The same Ukrainian services also claimed that in 2014 he had tied ties with the then president Viktor Yanukovichthen fled that year in Russia Following the protests of Euromaidan. And just 11 years ago the Ukrainian authorities had standing out a arrest warrant accusing him of having organized groups of shutters to attack the pro-EU manifests.
Sarkisian He was also honorary president of the Boxing federation of the self -proclaimed Donetsk Republicattached in 2022 to Russia.
A source of Russian investigative services he told the agency Tax that theattack It has been prepared with great care and with the use of “different people, each with a specific task, some to follow the goal, others as executors”. The images spread by the media show the lobby of the building devastated, with debris scattered everywhere on the floor.
From Washington and from Fly In the meantime, the signs that a dialogue under track He has now started, and for some time. “I think these discussions are actually going quite well,” he has returned to insist Trumpmaking it clear that Kiev It is involved. And the spokesperson of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskovhe echoed him by saying that the contacts are “under planning”, even if “so far there is nothing new to say”. There Reuters has inserted Saudi Arabia or Arab Emirates among the countries willing to host a possible summit Trump-Putin But there is nothing defined. What the USA and the Russia they seem to be already in agreement is the possible exclusion of Zelensky from a final agreement. Kellogg he said yesterday that for the United States new Elections in Ukraine “They are necessary”, because the electoral consultations “They are also held in war time.” Almost an express consent to the position of Flyaccording to which Zelensky has become an illegitimate president since last May, that is, since his official mandate ended and the election they were not called due to the martial law. “The very idea of keeping Elections in Ukraine It is important from the point of view of the legitimacy of the leadership, “he said Peskov. A necessary legitimacy, added for “the legal fixation of any agreements for the resolution of the conflict”.