STEPANAKERT. – President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh), Bako Sahakyan, signed a decree on Wednesday. 

Accordingly, NKR Defense Army division serviceman Sanasar Grigoryan has been posthumously awarded with the Medal for Service in Battle, and in recognition of his bravery during the defense of the Artsakh state border, Central Information Department of the Office of the NKR President informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As reported earlier, Grigoryan (born in 1989) sustained a fatal gunshot wound, on Tuesday at around 12:10pm, at the protection area of an NKR Defense Army unit which is stationed in an easterly direction of the line of contact, and as a result of the shots fired by the Azerbaijani armed forces.

A criminal case is launched into this incident.

Sanasar Grigoryan was from Herher village in the Martuni Region of NKR.