YEREVAN. – My son was at the front line of the sector where we suffered the most losses. Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this at Monday's session of the National Assembly of Armenia, referring to the defeat in the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war last fall.

According to him, there was a young volunteer next to his son at the said front line, he was his son's friend, and he had died on the spot as a result of a landmine explosion. “No one could decide who should die—or my son. That person's name is there, and that fact can be verified.

Yes, we were fighting desperately; and sorry for the comparison, but we were fighting like the Armenian people were fighting in the Battle of Avarayr, in Sardarapat, and I have dozens of such examples," said the acting prime minister.

Pashinyan assured that he did not try to make his son go into hiding, and did not create safer and more favorable conditions for him to serve in the army.

Also, the acting premier complained that he and his government, unlike the Armenian authorities 100 years ago, did not have as broad powers that, if necessary—and without any consequences for them—they could quickly put the panic-mongers against the wall for the firing squad.