GYUMRI, DECEMBER 20, ARMENPRESS. The sole resident of the village of Norshen, which borders Turkey in Armenia’s Shirak province, was honored today for her selfless devotion and many years of work.
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Families of troops who were besieged in two villages of Artsakh protest against authorities | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency
12:43, 16 December, 2020
GYUMRI, DECEMBER 16, ARMENPRESS. The families of the servicemen who were besieged in Artsakh’s Hin Tagher and Khtsaberd villages and who are officially considered missing since the evening of December 15 are blocking the Gyumri-Yerevan highway, demanding authorities to reveal the circumstances around what happened to them.
The Ministry of Defense of Artsakh announced on December 16 in a statement that in the evening of December 15, in unknown circumstances, it lost contact with the military personnel of several combat positions of the Defense Army deployed in the direction of the Hin Tagher and Khtsaberd villages of Hadrut.
Armenia: Shirak Residents Block Highway; Demand Information on POWs/MIAs
Residents of Armenia’s northwestern Shirak Province blocked a section of the country’s M1 Highway connecting Yerevan and Gyumri today, demanding the government provide information about family members who fought in the recent Karabakh war and are now registered as either POWs or MIAs.
Relatives of the soldiers say they have recognized family members in videos recently disseminated by the Azerbaijani media.
The Artsakh Defense Army today reported that it had lost communications with several of its units in the Hadrut region and that the possibility existed that Armenian soldiers had been taken prisoner.