YEREVAN. – Armenian soldier Hovhannes Poghosyan, who was severely wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh by the Azerbaijani armed forces, is recovering slowly but surely.

“Everything will be fine,” he said.

Hovhannes’s mother spoke in his stead. Ms. Gayane recalled that her son was wounded twice. First, on April 3, he had sustained a shrapnel wound in Talish village, but returned to the outposts, after spending a few hours in hospital. And the second time was on May 13, again in Talish. Hovhannes had approached a fountain to wash, and that is when he sustained a severe head wound by the adversary.

Even though doctors said he was in a very critical condition and his family expected the worst, the military serviceman proved to everyone that he will live.

He came out of the coma 26 days after his injury. And sometime thereafter, he was transferred to the Red Cross rehabilitation center in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan where, owing to persevering exercises, he finally began to walk again.

At present, his mother is sorting her son’s documents, in order to receive disability pension. 

Ms. Gayane wants for the Ministry of Defense to pay due consideration to her son.

Hovhannes Poghosyan is from Vanadzor, but his family lives on rent in Yerevan.