Nikol Pashinyan gave a briefing yesterday after the Government session, during which he also referred to the military operations carried out by Azerbaijan against Artsakh on September 19-20, 2023. He first said that he does not agree that Azerbaijan has implemented a genocidal policy in Artsakh.

He again insisted that they “did not fight” in Artsakh at that time, they “ran away”.

“And those myths: they fought to the end, etc., by the way, if necessary, we will declassify those data. I am sure, this dough will carry a lot of water, we will wait for it to carry well, so that I publish it at the right time, like the documents of the Nagorno Karabakh negotiation process, it is a lie, nothing like this happened, they ran away, they looted.”  noted he

Military expert, freedom fighter Martin Yesayan Instead of Nikol Pashinyan, he publicly apologizes to the parents and relatives of all the martyrs, the missing, the wounded, expressing his respect for the memory of the martyrs. He says that he is simply ashamed when a person who has not even served in the army can belittle the exploits of the boys to such an extent.

“In Artsakh, on September 19-20, 2023, within one day, we lost more than 200 boys on the battlefield, and the enemy lost thousands, that’s why the foreign intelligence has always told Azerbaijan: “Isn’t this you, you have been under a total blockade for 9 months, now you are giving losses?” Most of the weapons and ammunition have been used, one of the guys called me yesterday angrily, he says: “Have you heard what this ignorant government is saying?” The boys are very upset, they say: “How long will all this continue?” No, it will not continue for long, everyone will give their own answer.

I will give only one example. Only in the “Khachen Gorge” in the direction of Martakert, in the direction of only one position, the enemy gave 700 casualties, how come the people of Artsakh did not fight? 168.am–said in a conversation with Martin Yesayan.

He mentioned that he does not want even his enemy to go through what the Artsakh citizen went through. During the hot days of the war, when it was not possible to transport weapons to the positions due to lack of fuel, people used their donkeys and horses to carry weapons to the positions through the fire.

“What kind of attitude is this towards the fighting boys? Who ran away? Show me one nation in the world that leaves its home and homeland and runs away, if it is not subjected to genocide and ethnic cleansing. By God’s testimony, we fought, we fought until the last second, to save our homeland, land.

What does that person know, what percentage of weapons were used, he has neither served, nor is he an expert, nor has he held a weapon in his hand in his life, not counting that during the April war he went to Artsakh in May, when the war was stopped,” added our interlocutor.

Continuing, the freedom fighter stressed that before making certain statements, the authorities should at least be afraid of God’s judgment, because they will answer for the loss of the homeland, the lives of the fallen boys.

“What the RA leader announces today, he announces on behalf of the leaders of Azerbaijan and Turkey.

I am a big man, I saw with my own eyes what happened in Artsakh during the one-day war, and how our boys fought.

Several hundred enemy soldiers were killed in the western part of Stepanakert. If such a person spoke who had fought, had traveled a certain path, I would have remained silent, but someone who has not traveled the path of battle is speaking. Nikol Pashinyan has chosen a very bad path, very bad, this will not lead him, nor our country and people to any good place.

Please, be sure to publish that our heroes did everything possible in one day to keep Artsakh, but being alone, in the Azerbaijani blockade, they could not stand until the end,” emphasized Martin Yesayan.

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