Former Secretary of the Security Council of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Arshavir Gharamyan posted the following on his Facebook page:

“Major Garush Hambardzumyan, Captain Sos Elbakyan and Junior Sergeants Smbat Gabrielyan and Grisha Matevosyan were killed from the gunshots fired by Azerbaijani soldiers in the northeastern sector of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border today.

The servicemen sanctified the borders of Armenia by sacrificing their lives and joined the thousands of Armenian holy martyrs who had laid their lives on the line for the liberation of the homeland in the past…

Eternal glory to the bright memory of our Heroes, and long live our Nation of brave men who don’t even think about the battle for life or death and for the Homeland for one second…”