Another incident occurred today during Nikol Pashinyan’s campaign in the Arabkir administrative district. he was caught missing in action during the 44-day war with the sister of lieutenant colonel Hrant Papikyan, an experienced military doctor. During the 44-day war, Papikyan was the head of the military unit’s medical service stationed in the direction of Hadrut.

In the context of this incident, Tigran Avinyan, the mayor of Yerevan, the candidate for deputy of the CP Party, in a conversation with Factor TV, referred to the topic of those who “flew” from Artsakh during the 44-day war of 2020.

“Those who really flew from Karabakh are speaking such loud things today. I was there almost from the first day during the 44-day Karabakh war. I know the actors very well: who was there, what was said, who ran away, and those who ran away now their languages ​​have become kilometers long. he noted.

Avinyan replied to the retort: ​​why are they not being held criminally liable?

“Unfortunately, in these specific cases, I am not sure that people can be held criminally responsible for volunteering to escape. But the fact that they almost certainly had nothing to do with the real struggle, the war, and now they are talking about the war and the victims, having absolutely no right to do so…

I was the deputy prime minister of the country at that time, and I was in Karabakh almost until the last day, my car was shot, it remained under Shushi, my driver was injured, 9 of my protocol officers were wounded on the spot, the head of my office was a participant in the night fighting in Shushi. And in fact, we know the Karabakh war very well, let the places be feared, ignored and fought. They will scold, ignore, bite their tongues, they have nothing to do with Karabakh or the Karabakh war, they have not given a finger. Maybe they did the opposite during the entire fight.”

It should be noted that about a month ago, former RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan addressed Nikol Pashinyan in the National Assembly, saying:

“Mr. Pashinyan says that the generals ran away. The leadership of the National Assembly and the deputies came to the place where there was a need for reservists who had left the field of combat for one reason or another. Meanwhile, the deputies did not hesitate to go, at least for a few hours, to work with the “mob resource” (reservists, – M.P.). Who ran away now? did the generals run away or the parliamentarians who were there? And I know some of them.”

Another issue is that Seyran Ohanyan did not give names. Instead, we recalled a few episodes and names, of course, we did not ignore Tigran Avinyan either, whose role we reflected on in the context of the 44-day war still in 2023.

In another article where we talked about Avinyan’s role in the 44-day war, we did not miss the episode that during the war, On September 30, 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran regarding the approval of the program on the installation of photovoltaic plants implemented by the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Avinyan is a decision made:

Then already Days before the fall of Shushi, on November 5, 2020, the then president of Artsakh, Araik Harutyunyan, on his Facebook page had reported that is in Shushi, and Tigran Avinyan was also seen in the published photos.

By the way, Tigran Avinyan mentions the head of his office in the context of the war. We are talking about Serzh-Varag Siseryan, who once made accusations against Seyran Ohanyan., that in 2020 on the evening of November 5, Seyran Ohanyan left Shushi without even informing the last group members stationed there.

In other words, government representatives were in Shushi and were involved in the operations there, but today only the former commander of the Armed Forces, General Mikael Arzumanyan, is blamed for not keeping Shushi.

By the way, the representatives of the government also participated in the famous counter strike operation discussion, which perhaps they did not have the right to. Can Tigran Avinyan say why an action plan doomed to failure was approved, or on what basis was the order to take back the fortress city after the fall of Shushi on November 7, and did the presence of random people in command posts and other places not affect the outcome of the war? And maybe those presences were needed for some “files”?

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