The criminal authority of Yanukovych's time is recruiting prisoners for the war against Ukraine

At first, ArBAT, created by Sarkisian, fought in the Toretsk direction, and later the group was transferred to Kurshchyna.

The criminal authority from Donetsk region, Armen Sargsyan, who is hiding in the temporarily occupied part of the region and cooperates with the Russian FSB, joined the creation of an armed formation for the war against Ukraine. He belongs to the close entourage of fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych and is known in criminal circles as Armen Horlivskyi.

This was reported in the press service of the SBU.

Carrying out the tasks of the FSB of the Russian Federation, the criminal authority, which since May 2014 has been under international arrest for organizing murders in the center of Kyiv, began to create a “separate special purpose battalion of ArBAT” from the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

According to the SBU, the basis of this formation is recidivists who…