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Tirayr Muradyan

Armenian Defense Minister Welcomes Russian Peacekeepers; Says Armenia Faced Arms Blockade

Armenian Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan, who was surprisingly absent from public view during the recent war in Artsakh, today appeared on Armenian Public TV and said that the decision to end the fighting by signing a statement to hand over certain territories to Azerbaijan was the result of serious analysis of the situation on the battlefield.

Tonoyan said that Armenia was under a total blockade in terms of getting new arms shipments and that Azerbaijan had a major advantage in terms of armament.

He said that the mobilization of the armed forces was carried out to the maximum and that the Artsakh Defense Army resisted a much greater and better equipped forces consisting of Azerbaijani, Turkish and mercenary combatants.

Tonoyan said that Russian peacekeepers are already being deployed to Artsakh via Armenia through the Lachin corridor.

“Today's agreement was the maximum that could be had. In terms of deployment of Russian peacekeeping forces, this was the best option, which was developed in a short period of time. This document is more about the deployment of peacekeeping forces, and we are grateful to Russia for providing that support," said Tonoyan.

The minister said that “the maximum had been done”, while confessing that Azerbaijani enjoyed air superiority and Armenian forces were handicapped with out-of-date arms in response.

He added that Turkey was able to quickly ship arms to Azerbaijan.

Speaking about the fighting in and around Shushi, Tonoyan said that the events there developed very dynamically. The city was besieged, but the heroic battle continued

He said that military operations were successful, and Armenian forces remained in Shushi until the last day, but their numbers weren’t sufficient to regain full control.

Tonoyan also rejected the criticism that the Ministry of Defense did not fully explain daily battlefield developments to the public during the war.

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Kurukulasuriya Fernando
Being a catholic from Sri Lanka i felt sorry for these young Armenians going behind the the WEST who never support the Christians when a Muslim aggressor comes. When TURKY comes they behave like lame duct allowing Muslims to even annihilate the Christians. So you wanted to distance the RUSSIANS who are the Arch Angel who gave the military support in the last war against the Azerbaijan. Forget all went behind Europe. Did their media at least give any news about the plight of the Armenians. Your PM distanced RUSSIA on so many occasions under European wishes went to get cheap gas from IRAN against getting from RUSSIA. Then in spite of opposition from RUSSIA wanted to remove the representative in the RUSSIAN GROUP and wanted to prosecute. That traitor (PM) humiliated the RUSSIA and that is why PUTIN taught e lesson to all of you who went even to the extent of teaching your children about the RUSSIAN so called past aggression. All to satisfy the west. The TRAITER the PM should have resigned three weeks back and given the power to the former PM whom you all deposed and chased away. he could have negotiated a better deal as PUTIN does not like to see the face of your present PM> Ask that traiter to go to EUROPE and spend the rest of his life there. .

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