Recently, a group of journalists travelled to military units in Artsakh under an agreement brokered between the Investigative Journalists NGO and the Artsakh Ministry of Defense.

There, reporters had a chance to converse with soldiers and officers on the frontlines.

Afterwards, they met with Artsakh Defense Minister Lieutenant General Movses Hakobyan. The group spent the better part of an evening around a campfire and DM Hakobyan expressed his views on a number of topics and answered questions.

He categorically stated that a retreat of Armenian forces from the frontlines would be followed by the outbreak of war.

Photo by Gagik Shamshyan