Moscow blast ‘kills founder of unit fighting in eastern Ukraine’

The blast occurred at an upscale residential block in Moscow (Investigative Committee of Moscow via AP)

Two people have died after an explosion rocked an upmarket block of flats in Moscow – including the founder of a battalion that battled Kyiv’s forces in eastern Ukraine, Russian authorities and news reports said.

One of the dead was identified as Armen Sarkisyan, founder of the volunteer battalion who also heads a boxing federation in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region.