10 February 2020, 21:51
Regular soldier dies in military unit of Nagorno-Karabakh
On February 9, a 19-year-old soldier of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army was found unconscious in one of the military units. He died in a hospital.
Private Valery Petrosyan was called up for service in the Stepanakert military registration and enlistment office, the "Sputnik-Armenia" reports.
According to the monitoring conducted by the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office, 630 soldiers of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh deceased in the period from 2010 to November 11, 2019. 381 deaths were non-combat losses. During the above period, 88 suicides were committed in the army. The largest number of suicides was registered in 2016, when it reached 13.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on February 10, 2020 at 01:32 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
