“As a result, the adversary failed to put into action its plans, it mainly refers to the northern direction. Let me mention again, that those works are continuous, they are in the center of our leadership, we cooperate with respective specialists.”
“Comparing those activities—penetration attempts by sabotage and reconnaissance groups, use of weaponry before and after April, presently volumes are incomparably small, mainly sniper rifles, large caliber rifles and artillery are being used. Such gatherings aren’t observed. We attentively follow their moves.”
Karen Vardanyan said, adding that the April war has changed everything, lots of things have changed not only in the Defense Ministry, but in social consciousness as well, “There is big readiness among the society towards implementing works to strengthen Armenia’s defensiveness.”
A strategic command staff exercise codenamed Kavkaz-2016 with 12,500 troops taking part has begun in the Southern Military District, the Russian Defense Ministry has said.
