MOSCOW, February 6. /TASS/. Commander of the ArBat battalion, Hayk Gasparyan, believes that the murder of the battalion's founder, Armen Sarkisyan, was ordered by the Ukrainian authorities.

"We know who the masterminds are. We know the perpetrators. He [Vladimir Zelensky] openly admitted it, stating that we eliminated people who were undesirable to us," the battalion’s commander told TASS.

A farewell ceremony for Sarkisyan was held at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery on Thursday. He was killed on February 3 in an explosion at the Alye Parusa residential compound. The presumed attacker was also killed, and three others were injured in the incident. Criminal proceedings have been initiated regarding the murder of two or more persons.