Movses Hakobyan: All movements of adversary’s troops are followed by Defense Army intelligence service

YEREVAN, APRIL 12, ARMENPRESS. Intelligence units of the Defense Army follow all movements of adversary’s troops. Deputy Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia Movses Hakobyan announced about this in the program “Zham” (The hour) of Armenia TV channel. “It is not ruled out that the enemy plans to take some actions, but all their movements are followed by our intelligence services”, “Armenpress” reports Hakobyan saying.

The Deputy Chief of General Staff presented details over the armistice agreement reached in Moscow. Particularly, Hakobyan told that the Chief of General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces called his Armenian counterpart. “He mentioned that the Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan has turned to him to act as a mediator to meet with the Chief of General Staff of Armenian Armed Forces for establishing ceasefire and clarifying or solving further issues”, Hakobyan said.

To the question if at that time the Armenian units were already taking counteroffensive actions and were moving forward, Hakobyan said. “At that point the Defense Army was already fully controlling the situation, and was absolutely pressing the adversary, after which Azerbaijan started to use “Smerch”, “Tos” and UAVs. The armistice agreement was reached at the moment when the pressure by Defense Army was huge and Azerbaijan was suffering massive losses”.

According to Movses Hakobyan the Armenian side has returned all the positions of key importance, and the small part that is left under the control of the adversary can have no impact on organizing future service and have no tactical importance.

“They were assisted by special units trained in Turkey which were equipped with necessary armaments. Azerbaijan had also considered the political situation in the region, Russian-Turkish relations. As we know, the adversary refused for a long time to participate in the negotiation process and wanted to change the negotiation format. By these actions Azerbaijan wanted to show the international community that if the problem does not find a solution that would meet their expectations, they will launch such activities. The adversary failed to implement any of its plans, and the Armenian forces prove they are capable of solving the tasks put before them”, he said.

To the remark of the journalist that the Defense Army always announced about a painful response, Hakobyan stated, “These 4 days demonstrated that the Defense Army is capable of doing what it announces. I assure that Azerbaijan will once again create an opportunity for the Armenian Armed Forces to implement its announcements”.