Spokesman for the President of the Artsakh Republic Vahram Poghosyan issued the following today, stating that Shushi is completely out of the control of the Armenian forces and the existence of the capital Stepanakert is endangered. In a conversation with Hetq, he confirmed that he was the author of the post and that his Facebook page was not hacked. 

"The post made by the President of the Artsakh Republic today has caused certain disillusionment in public circles. This is natural, because war is an act of hard struggle, where neither success nor failure is guaranteed. To this day, unfortunately, we have to admit that the chain of failures still haunts us, and the city of Shushi is completely out of our control.

“The zones should be tightened once again, as the enemy is on the outskirts of Stepanakert,

“If we want Shushi to be ours again, Artsakh to be preserved, today we must use all our capabilities to organize a reliable defense in Stepanakert and other directions of the front. This is the real and reliable guarantee of success. False calls for victory and Facebook speculations will lead to the loss of everything bit by bit.

“And history will not forgive us for that…

“We are fighting to the end."