YEREVAN. – On Thursday morning, servicemen from the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia (RA) detected the dead body of an Azerbaijani soldier at the buffer zone across the combat position at the southwestern sector of the RA state border.
According to the information received, this soldier was an Azerbaijani army captain and battalion commander, who had fled after a crime that was committed in his military unit, the Ministry of Defense (MOD) of Armenia informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.
“The RA Ministry of Defense expresses its readiness to transfer the serviceman’s dead body to the Azerbaijani side, by the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross [(ICRC)],” the respective MOD statement reads, in particular.
