YEREVAN. – Not solely one-lump sum assistance will be provided, but a pension will be allocated to families of the crew members of the Armenian helicopter which Azerbaijan had shot down.  

The MOD Department of Social Protection of Servicemen informed the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The one-lump sum assistance comprises the amount for the funeral and the insurance payment. As for the allocation of a military pension, the MOD will do everything to resolve the respective matters by no later than December 15.

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire and shot down a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Air Force helicopter on November 12. The chopper was downed during a training flight, and it crashed very close to the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact. As a result, three pilots were killed: the commander of the helicopter, Major Sergey Sahakyan, as well as Senior Lieutenant Sargis Nazaryan and Lieutenant Azat Sahakyan.

The adversary, on the other hand, was firing intensive shots toward the crash site, thus, not allowing access to the area.

But the remains of these three military servicemen plus some necessary parts of the chopper were retrieved from the helicopter’s crash site through a special operation by the NKR armed forces. As a result, the Azerbaijanis suffered serious casualties, whereas the Armenian side sustained none.