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YEREVAN, APRIL 25, ARMENPRESS. The sole power that was able to prevent Azerbaijan from committing genocide was the Armenian army. The army brilliantly fulfilled its duty. Spokesperson of the Defense Ministry of Armenia Artsrun Hovhannisyan mentioned about this in a lecture at YSU headlined “The comparative of arms stockpiles of Armenia and Azerbaijan”.
“We have heard many analyses of the April war. There is still time for scientific analyses. It was a blitzkrieg by nature, precise and with far-going goals. We have already checked a lot of things, the adversary had put huge tasks in front of itself, particularly, make distracting strikes which would be followed by the main strike from the centre. Our troops carried out uncompromising struggle; they prevented any serious advancement which confused the enemy. Their plans for the strike from the center were exposed and it did not happen”, “Armenpress” reports Hovhannisyan saying.
In the words of the Defense Ministry spokesperson, the war must be scrutinized in detail. “What happened after and prior the war needs serious study. We witnessed a historical moment when a genocide attempt was made for eliminating Armenians “, he stated.
Artsrun Hovhannisyan mentioned that all the soldiers fought until the last breath, non of the retreated.
“In several occasions our soldiers could have retreated and no one would blame them for it, but retreating from the battlefield is not the nature of Armenians”, he said.
To the question if there were problems in terms of intelligence, Artsrun Hovhannisyan excluded its possibility. “Intelligence can gather information on approximate measures or logic of the operation, but it cannot predict the entire operation. Intelligence services had been informed what was going on, that is why the units passed from conservation into defense”, he stated.