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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   29 March 2024

Serzh Sargsyan: Power is not about modern weapons or number of tanks

Serzh Sargsyan: Power is not about modern weapons or number of tanks

YEREVAN, APRIL 6, ARMENPRESS. Following the meeting with Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, Serzh Sargsyan announced during a briefing that the past 3 days of military operation in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone showed that power is not about modern weapons or number of tanks.

“Azerbaijan may have more modern weapons, and the military operations during the last 3 days showed that indeed those weapons do function. But power isn’t about modern weapons, it’s not about it at all, power is not about number of tanks, it’s about the faith that is present among the people of Karabakh and overall among Armenians, that will protect their homeland at any price.

Yes, we mainly fight with weapons of the 1980s, but the recent conflict showed who is fighting how, showed how many casualties the Azerbaijanis have and how many we have, showed how we treat every single loss, by informing our society every second about casualties, wounded, loss of equipment. Try to find similar information in Azerbaijan: You can’t. You know, war is a very bad thing, this is not news. But the war of the past 3 days showed that it is easier to fight in an open society, as the people’s support is the biggest thing. This is real power”, “Armenpress” reports the President saying.

Speaking on the fact that Russia is selling arms to Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan said: “Russia is our strategic partner, and we are in the same security system – the CSTO. Naturally, we feel sorry when Russia, and not only Russia but also other CSTO countries sell arms to Azerbaijan. But we understand that our abilities are very limited to influence this process.”

Along the entire length of the contact line of Nagorno Karabakh- Azerbaijani opposing forces, on April 1 and throughout the morning of April 2, the adversary undertook large-scale offensive military actions, during which the adversary shelled with missile-artillery units not only Armenian defense positions, but also civilian settlements.

According to the data of the Defense Army, the Azerbaijani armed forces fired MM-21 (Grad) multiple rocket launcher on April 2, at 08: 30 in the direction of Martuni (NKR), killing 12 year old Vaghinak Grigoryan and wounding two other children. 4 other civilians were wounded later.On April 3 the subversive group of Azerbaijan brutally killed 3 elderly and vandalized their corpses in Talish village. 

The Armenian side has 29 causalities,28 soldiers missing, 101 wounded. 5 more people including the heads of two rural communities of Syunik Marz,were killed on their way to Martakert on April 4.

Due to the timely and professional actions of the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army, it was possible to take the situation under control, and make the enemy suffer considerable losses. On April 1-5 as a result of the crushing counterattacks by the Armenian side against the military aggressions towards the Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijan lost 2 helicopters, 24 tanks, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 7 UAVs, 1 21-MM multiple rocket launcher system. During military operations the Azerbaijani armed forces had more than 300 causalities, nearly 2000 wounded. On April 5 at 12:00, the fire was ceased in the line of contact between Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces. The agreement of ceasing the fire was reached at the meeting of the Chiefs of General Staff of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on April 5.

 








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