Colonel-General Movses Hakobyan, a former Artsakh Minister of Defense and former Chief of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, has been charged with revealing state secrets. (Criminal Code Article 306)

Hakobyan told Hetq that he had been summoned to appear before Armenia’s National Security Service for questioning. The former official then signed an affidavit not to leave the country.

Hakobyan, at a November 19, 2020 Yerevan press conference, stated that the main reasons for Armenia's defeat in the recent Artsakh war were inadequate leadership, ignorance, and lack of the mastery of the art of war.

The day before, Hakobyan resigned from the post of Head of the Military Control Service of the Armenian Ministry of Defense.

Hakobyan said that the army’s troubles began in the summer of 2018 when he was replaced by Artak Davtyan as Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces. This is after Nikol Pashinyan assumed the post of Armenia's Prime Minister.

Hakobyan said that Davtyan was the “most unprepared” general for the job.

Hakobyan also blamed the PM Pashinyan and the Minister of Defense for the shortage of manpower during the recent war.

"Our mobilization did not take place. The head of the country is responsible for it, along with the Minister of Defense, the Military Commissariat and the Minister of Territorial Administration, not the Chief of Staff. As of September 30, the plan to replenish the Artsakh Army was implemented by 78%, and that of Armenia by 52%. It should have been done within 40 hours, but it remained the same on the fifth day of the war,” said Hakobyan.