Artsrun Hovhannisyan resigns as Armenian defense ministry special spokesman
13.11.2020,
10:21
Artsrun Hovhannisyan resigned yesterday as special spokesman for the Armenian defense ministry. On his Facebook page, Hovhannisyan wrote that he was confident in the victory of the Armenian forces in Artsakh.
YEREVAN, November 13. /ARKA/. Artsrun Hovhannisyan resigned yesterday as special spokesman for the Armenian defense ministry. On his Facebook page, Hovhannisyan wrote that he was confident in the victory of the Armenian forces in Artsakh.
“During this war, I conducted my military operations in the fourth plane - in the “information plane”. Time and professional analysis will give an assessment of how I did it. There is no person who would not be wrong. The information that I provided to the public was mainly based on the information of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces and the Artsakh Defense Army. Yes, I was sure that we will win, this belief of mine was based on the battles fought by many of my comrades in arms,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
During the 44 days of the war in Artsakh against the Azerbaijani-Turkish aggression, Hovhannisyan was giving daily evening briefings, presenting the situation on Artsakh War frontline and answering questions from journalists, both local and international.
He also wrote on his page that he had retired from this activity on November 9.
“I will continue to work in the scientific field and ask you to protect me from various proposals. I have not been involved in politics and I am not going to do it. I bow before our heroic victims. I must put my life into the education and upbringing of a new generation,” Hovhannisyan added.
About the Second Artsakh War
Since September 27, for 44 days, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, with the direct participation and support of Turkey, as well as the foreign mercenaries and terrorists recruited by it, carried out aggression along the entire length of the contact line in Artsakh, conducting artillery and rocket attacks, also against civilians and civilian infrastructures. Prohibited types of weapons were also used. The strikes were delivered, inter alia, at civil and military targets on the territory of Armenia.
The Azerbaijani side suffered massive losses in manpower (7,630 killed) and military equipment. During the hostilities, 784 units of various armored vehicles, 4 MLRS "Smerch", "Uragan", 6 TOS units, 264 UAVs, 16 helicopters, and 25 aircraft were destroyed. According to the official data of the Armenian side, during the repulsion of the enemy's aggression, more than 1,200 Armenian servicemen were killed and several hundred people were wounded. As a result of war crimes in Azerbaijan, 50 civilians were killed and 148 wounded. About 19,000 infrastructure units were damaged.
On November 9, the leaders of the Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Putin, Aliyev and Pashinyan, signed a statement according to which all hostilities in the zone of the Karabakh conflict were stopped on November 10. In particular, Azerbaijan and Armenia stop at their positions. A number of regions are returned to Azerbaijan, including the city of Shushi, as well as Aghdam, Kelbajar and Lachin regions, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia. A Russian peacekeeping contingent is deployed along the line of contact in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and surrounding areas. There is an exchange of prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead. -0---
“During this war, I conducted my military operations in the fourth plane - in the “information plane”. Time and professional analysis will give an assessment of how I did it. There is no person who would not be wrong. The information that I provided to the public was mainly based on the information of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces and the Artsakh Defense Army. Yes, I was sure that we will win, this belief of mine was based on the battles fought by many of my comrades in arms,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
During the 44 days of the war in Artsakh against the Azerbaijani-Turkish aggression, Hovhannisyan was giving daily evening briefings, presenting the situation on Artsakh War frontline and answering questions from journalists, both local and international.
He also wrote on his page that he had retired from this activity on November 9.
“I will continue to work in the scientific field and ask you to protect me from various proposals. I have not been involved in politics and I am not going to do it. I bow before our heroic victims. I must put my life into the education and upbringing of a new generation,” Hovhannisyan added.
About the Second Artsakh War
Since September 27, for 44 days, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, with the direct participation and support of Turkey, as well as the foreign mercenaries and terrorists recruited by it, carried out aggression along the entire length of the contact line in Artsakh, conducting artillery and rocket attacks, also against civilians and civilian infrastructures. Prohibited types of weapons were also used. The strikes were delivered, inter alia, at civil and military targets on the territory of Armenia.
The Azerbaijani side suffered massive losses in manpower (7,630 killed) and military equipment. During the hostilities, 784 units of various armored vehicles, 4 MLRS "Smerch", "Uragan", 6 TOS units, 264 UAVs, 16 helicopters, and 25 aircraft were destroyed. According to the official data of the Armenian side, during the repulsion of the enemy's aggression, more than 1,200 Armenian servicemen were killed and several hundred people were wounded. As a result of war crimes in Azerbaijan, 50 civilians were killed and 148 wounded. About 19,000 infrastructure units were damaged.
On November 9, the leaders of the Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Putin, Aliyev and Pashinyan, signed a statement according to which all hostilities in the zone of the Karabakh conflict were stopped on November 10. In particular, Azerbaijan and Armenia stop at their positions. A number of regions are returned to Azerbaijan, including the city of Shushi, as well as Aghdam, Kelbajar and Lachin regions, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia. A Russian peacekeeping contingent is deployed along the line of contact in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and surrounding areas. There is an exchange of prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead. -0---
