Crime boss Sarkisyan gets instructions to create private paramilitary troop

The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defence Ministry has reported that a new "watchman" has been appointed for prisons in Russia and the occupied territories of Ukraine.

As Caliber.Az reports, citing Ukrainian media, Armen Sarkisyan, a crime boss from Ukraine’s Horlivka city, was instructed to create a new private military company (PMC) composed of prisoners, similar to the Wagner PMC which is currently playing an active role in the Russian combat attacks on Ukraine.

According to the Ukrainian intelligence, the Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetyan will finance this new military group.