YEREVAN, JANUARY 16, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan issued a decree on January 16 posthumously bestowing private soldier Garik Vardanyan with Medal for Combat Service, “Armenpress” was informed from the press service of the Armenian President’s Office.

Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime on December 30 in the Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact which resulted in NKR serviceman Garik Vardanyan sustaining gunshot wounds. The wounded soldier was airlifted from Stepanakert (NKR) to Armenia’s capital of Yerevan and hospitalized in the military hospital “Muratsan”. Later, on January 15, at 23:35, 21 year old NKR soldier Garik Vardanyan, died in Yerevan’s Central Military Hospital.