The Chief of the Armenian Armed Forces General Staff, Colonel General Yuri Khachaturov, stated that Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, who has killed six members of a family in Gyumri city, will be brought to justice in Armenia.

Khachaturov announced the aforesaid in Gyumri, and during the closed consultation with the special investigation commission members who have arrived from Moscow, and during which the future procedure for conducting the respective investigation was specified.
 

“Ours will be adjudicating Permyakov; he definitely will be imprisoned here. But we [, Armenians,] need to be a friend with the Russians; they are our friends.

“The Russian people are not to blame for the thing Permyakov has done; he is simply a villain,” Yuri Khachaturov stated, in particular.

Six members of a family were shot dead and a six-month-old baby was wounded in a house in Gyumri on Monday. Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the city’s Russian 102nd Military Base, is the main suspect in this crime. Permyakov was apprehended near the Armenian-Turkish border, in the vicinity of Armenia’s Bayandur village.