Armen Sargsyan was an Armenian-born Russian gangster and businessman that was wanted by the Ukrainian government since 2014. He was the founder of the paramilitary Arbat Battalion during the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Biography
Sargsyan was born in Armenia but moved to Horlivka, and often went by the pseudonym Armen Gorlovsky after the city. In the early 2000s Sargsyan rose through the ranks of a local gang and by 2009 controlled industrial facilities, including a coal producer and a machine-building plant. Ukraine has not taken responsibility for the assassination, after having recently quickly taken responsibility for the assassination of Igor Kirillov in December 2024. ==Notes==