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27 Apr in 10:20 Armenia's armed forces will not participate in a NATO 'Defender Europe 21' military exercise, the country's Ministry of Defense said in a statement. "Despite the official clarification made earlier, in response to inquiries that continue to be received from the media, we reiterate that the RA Ministry of Defense does not envisage the participation of RA Armed Forces units in the Defender Europe 21 military exercise of NATO," News.am cited the statement as saying. Earlier, it was reported on the United States Army Europe and Africa official homepage that Armenia's Armed Fo...

Another group of Armenian peacekeepers left for Lebanon Another group of peacekeepers of the RA Armed Forces left for Lebanon, the Ministry of Defense reported.   The Armenian peacekeepers in Lebanon are involved in the UNIFIL mission under the auspices of the United Nations. The Lebanese peacekeeping mission was launched in December of 2014 with the participation of the Armenian platoon of 32 servicemen under the command of Italy.  During its service, Armenian peacekeepers took part in numerous international and multinational military exercises, receiving the praise and awards by the comm...

Ex-Army chief calls for creating a parliamentary commission to look into the circumstances of the Nagorno-Karabakh war The former chief of the Armenian army’s General Staff Onik Gasparyan has come up with a proposal to immediately  establish a parliamentary investigative commission to look into the questions surrounding the 44-day Nagorno Karabakh war in 2020. In a letter addressed to the Speaker of the National Assembly Ararat Mirzoyan, the Chair of the NA Standing Committee on Defense and Security as well the heads of parliamentary factions, Gasparyan notes the work of the Commission wil...

Plans for Russian-Armenian military-technical cooperation discussed at the Defense Ministry On April 16, Chief of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Artak Davtyan  received Ambassador of  Russia to Armenia Sergey Kopirkin and the military attaché of the Russian Embassy Colonel Andrey Grischuk. As the press service at the Ministry of Defense reported, the interlocutors touched upon issues of Armenian-Russian bilateral cooperation in the defense sector as well as future plans for military and military-technical cooperation.  Source Panorama.am

Russian Defense Ministry Says Armenian Military Didn’t Use Iskander Missiles in Artsakh War Following Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan’s February 23rd allegation that only 10% of the Iskander mobile short-range ballistic missile systems employed by the Armenian military in the recent Artsakh war worked, the Russian Defense Ministry today stated that none of these systems were used in the fighting. “According to the available objective and reliable information, which has been confirmed by the objective control system, none of these missile systems were used during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflic...