Former deputy head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia, Lieutenant General Tiran Khachatryan in an interview with the Armenian edition Yerevan Today denied some statements by I.O. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikola Pashinyan.
So, Khachatryan denied Pashinian’s words that after the 44th day war, he instructed the General Staff Armenia to engage in the border equipment: “We have been addressed several times about providing the necessary equipment, at least for cleaning snow, for the delivery of personnel at position, But nothing was done. They had to increase the means to solve certain tasks, did not increase, on the contrary, reduced the planned, promised to find funds, did nothing. “
Next, Khachatryan argues that the army “never supported for a second,” thereby refuting the approval of Pashinyan that he always supported the army: the most primitive tasks of ensuring that they had to organize were not fulfilled . As a front commander, I personally asked for placing barrier troops to stop the fugitives, did not even do it. I am not talking about weapons and ammunition, the use of diplomatic channels, carrying out the relevant work. “
Khachatryan also stated that Nikol Pashinyan during the 44-day war in Karabakh ignored the procedure for harmonizing rocket launches with Russia. According to the former high-ranking military, only the Supreme Commander-in-Chief can give permission to launch any kind of rockets, but at certain cases there was a need for agreement with Russia: “The task was made to release the missile, and there was a problem to coordinate actions with the Russians, he said:” Whoever has such Russians ? I decide everything here. “
Khachatryan accuses Pashinian in the fact that, despite the shortcomings identified in the army, none of the questions were resolved: “Back in 2019, we conducted exercises and presented 62 flaws, how many of them were eliminated? No. per year No flaw, no problematic question was solved. “