Armenian News - NEWS.am presents the daily digest of top news as of 27.04.22:

  • Car from Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan’s convoy hit and killed a pregnant woman.

The Armenian police confirmed the information about the accident involving Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's government motorcade.

The citizen was hit by a car of the Road Police, which was on duty.

The pregnant girl, who was run over by a motorcade, has died, the child also could not be saved.

This 29-year-old pregnant woman was Sona Mnatsakanyan, and she was working at the Support Our Heroes (SOH)-Armenia organization.

Mnatsakanyan was born and raised in Berkanush village of Artashat city. She had gotten married last year and was living in Yerevan.

Earlier it was reported that the government motorcade of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hit a pedestrian at the intersection of Leo-Paronyan-Proshyan streets in Yerevan.

  • Azerbaijani foreign minister Jeyhun Bayramov talked about the "results" of talks with his Armenian counterpart, Ararat Mirzoyan.

His remarks came at a joint press briefing with visiting Georgian FM Ilia Darchiashvili

“After putting an end to the conflict, one of the priority issues for us is the provision of sustainable peace in the region,” Bayramov noted.

The FM noted he and his Armenian counterpart have already had some results.

“I have already had two telephone conversations with Armenian FM. There is already conditions for the start of Commission on delimitation and demarcation of borders to operate," Bayramov added.

  • The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia on Tuesday received a formal request from a number of parents and relatives of soldiers killed during the war unleashed by Azerbaijan in 2020 in Karabakh to recognize these servicemen as victims in the respective criminal case, and this request was granted.

On the same day, the Prosecutor General's Office received a separate formal request to include Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as a defendant in the criminal case under investigation into the causes of the catastrophic consequences of the 2020 Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war.

  • Opposition forces protests continue in Yerevan.

The political opposition in Armenia, headed by the Armenia and With Honor parliamentary factions, launched protests against the government of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Yesterday, ARF youth and some citizens led by Armenian MP Anna Grigoryan started to march on Yerevan from the Ararat Province village of Tigranashen.

Armenia’s ARF Youth Union on Wednesday staged a protest on Komitas Avenue in Yerevan.

Parliamentary Vice Speaker, Hayastan MP Ishkhan Saghatelyan reported live on Facebook that police had detained the protesters.

The Human Rights Defender’s Office later announced they had visited 24 detainees and were told that police used force to detain them and provided no legal justification.

Also today Young activists of the Resistance Movement blocked the intersection of Mashtots Avenue and Khorenatsi Street in Yerevan and set up a small house with the inscription "Polis" in the middle of the road.

One of the protesters said that the enemy had re-installed a customs checkpoint on the Goris-Kapan highway.

After a while, the protesters ended the rally by apologizing to the drivers. There were practically no police officers on the avenue at the time.

  • The situation in Ukraine remains highly tense.

Ukraine’s general staff said Wednesday Russian forces were pressing their offensive in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions and they had captured several settlements.

However, Britain's defense ministry said Ukraine retains control over the majority of its airspace.

Meanwhile, a series of blasts were heard in the early hours of Wednesday in three Russian provinces bordering Ukraine, authorities sai.

According to them, an ammunition depot in the Belgorod province caught fire around the same time.

Ukraine also accused Russia of trying to drag Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria into its war after authorities in the Russia-backed region, adjacent to southwest Ukraine, said they had been targeted by a series of attacks.

  • Russia’s Gazprom has suspended gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria, citing the two countries’ refusal to pay in Russian rubles.

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In turn, the head of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, called Gazprom's statement to stop gas supplies to the EU countries unjustified and unacceptable.

  • Tuesday marked the 36th anniversary of what is considered the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.

And the international media said there is relief that the hulking sarcophagus covering the reactor’s radioactivity has returned to Ukrainian control.

But concerns have far from dissipated for atomic sites in Ukraine, as authorities even said Tuesday that missiles had flown low over a nuclear power station in a close call in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.

According to the Ukrainian side, the plant suffered a power and communications outage that stirred fears of a possible new calamity at the site.