The second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, has congratulated on the occasion of Victory and Peace Day.

"Happy May 9," Kocharyan wrote, in brief, on social media.

May 9 had been a triple celebration day for Armenians for years: the victory of the Soviet people in the Second World War, as well as the day of the creation of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Defense Army and the day of the liberation of Artsakh’s Shushi city in 1992. But Armenians have lost Shushi as a result of the painful defeat in the 44-day Artsakh war in the fall of 2020.