The leadership of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia on Thursday visited the Victory Park in Yerevan, and laid flowers at the monument to the Unknown Soldier, on the occasion of Victory and Peace Day.

Also, a tribute was paid to the martyrs who gave their lives in the fight against fascism, as well as for the statehood, independence, and sovereignty of Armenia, the MoD informs Armenian News-NEWS.am.

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.