On October 10, Azerbaijani troops captured Hadrut and shot 71-year-old Serzhik Vardanyan and 68-year-old Ella Vardanyan to death.
The search teams have found and removed 1,670 bodies from territories now under Azerbaijani control. 27 have been identified as civilians.
Rudik Sarkhoshev used to tend apple trees in his garden in Armenia’s Arzni village before war broke out in Karabakh last fall.
"He asked me, 'Mom, will you let me get the medal?' And he keeps saying, 'I want to be like my father,'" said Mrs. Yeghiazaryan.
“I asked my son to name his daughter Rosa, after me. But he refused. I was upset at first, but he said he’d name her after the female fedayi Soseh Mayrig,” says Mrs. Petrosyan.
Armen Baghdasaryan was posthumously awarded the Combat Service Medal.
"He would tell me not to worry. That he’ll go and return. That we’ll build a house. not be upset,” says Tehmineh.
The following day, the retreating servicemen were deployed to an area near to where Eduard lay. They tried to approach the site but were repulsed by Azerbaijani artillery fire.
Vardan Mirzakhanyan was killed on November 7, 2020 in Shushi during the war. Their five-year-old son Alex died of an illness on February 2.