We must strive for peace. But one of the most important factors in striving for peace is the strength of the army, military force, which I consider not a factor of war, but a factor of peace. The First President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, wrote this on social media.

Armenia on Friday celebrates the Yerkrapah (Defender of the Land) Day. The operation to liberate Nagorno-Karabakh’s Shushi city from Azerbaijani occupation also took place on these days in 1992.