YEREVAN, APRIL 19, ARMENPRESS. We value the life of any soldier and officer, while Azerbaijanis are ready to sacrifice hundreds, even thousands of soldiers to satisfy their political aspirations. “Armenpress” reports President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan told about this in his speech at one of the regiments of Artsakh, after awarding a number of servicemen. “They educate their soldiers in other way, they take it as normal when their soldiers cut off the ears of their adversary, meaning our soldiers and officers, as well as when their special units, I cannot call the soldiers, cut off the ears of 90 year-old killed elderly. Such an education cannot lead to good. It is a style of behavior resembling terrorists”, “Armenpress” reports, Serzh Sargsyan saying, adding that Armenians are afraid of only one thing: living without freedom and dignity.

President Sargsyan also stated that the Armenian soldier once again demonstrated in front of everyone who the Armenian soldier is and who the soldier of the Motherland is. “Whenever there is a necessity to fight, you transform into the most disciplined, the most prudent and the most combat ready soldiers. Years ago I said that if we are forced into a war, today’s soldiers and officers will fight no less bravely than their fathers, grandfathers and elder friends did. You demonstrated that you are much more combat ready, much braver, and unyielding. Times change and the methods of wars change, but moral values remain the same. Remain the same and win. A soldier has nothing to say to his adversary, a soldier tells whatever he want to tell his adversary in the battlefield, and long live all of you, all our soldiers and officers, who managed to deliver their pledge to the adversary”, the President said.

He mentioned that no Armenian soldier or officer abandoned his position during those dreadful days. “How not to be proud of a soldier, who firing out all the bullets and being injured, explodes a grenade so as to take with him the adversary’s soldier? How not to name a soldier who destroys a helicopter by a grenade launcher a quick-witted one? How not to be proud of a soldier who destroys 5 adversary tanks in the battlefield? You fulfilled and continue to fulfill you responsibilities properly. Unfortunately, war is a very cruel thing. Not everyone can see the results of his work in his earthly life, as well as how people get proud of them. Glory to our soldiers and officers who died during these days. Glory to all those who died during these 25 years for the sake of our freedom and independence. Long live, soldiers of the Motherland. I have no slight doubt that all of us, each of us in his place, will fulfill the duties of the soldier of the Motherland, duties, which are sacred. I wish you safe service, though these words are not so serious in times of war. Glory to your parents, glory to the families were you were born and educated, glory to your teachers. I am thankful to you”, the President concluded.