ArmInfo. The incident in Panik village is a provocation directed against the Armenian-Russian cooperation and against the new Armenian authorities. This was announced by Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan at a government meeting on July 19.
According to him, such steps are not permissible. "Currently, the Armenian Police is preparing materials on the incident, but in any case, it is necessary to follow the procedures to prevent the recurrence of such incidents," the Prime Minister of Armenia said.
As ArmInfo earlier wrote, the Panik village administration stated that in its administrative boundaries there were exercises accompanied by shooting (as it later turned out, with blank ammunition), but they did not receive notification of the exercise, so many villagers were frightened.
Meanwhile, deputy commander of the 102nd Russian base in Armenia for work with personnel Aleksey Polyukhovich, after a meeting with the governor of Shirak region, told journalists that at the 102nd Russian military base stationed in Gyumri, a trial is being held in connection with the incident in the village Panik of the Shirak region of Armenia: "We have reached mutual understanding on this issue, we are conducting a hearing on this incident, according to the results, the press service will report on its results."
In turn, the governor of Shirak region Karen Sarukhanyan said that the Russian military reported a force majeure situation and apologized for the incident. "This happened for the first time, and they assured that the next time this will not happen again, an official investigation is being conducted against those guilty, and they will necessarily be held responsible," Sarukhanyan said. Meanwhile, Armenian Prime Minister's press secretary Arman Egoyan said that this issue is under the close attention of the head of government.
This issue was discussed yesterday by Armenian Defense Minister David Tonoyan and commander of the 102nd Russian military base Vladimir Elkanov.
It is noteworthy that for already two decades servicemen of the 102nd RVB have been training in this area near the village of Panik, which is located next to Alagyaz high-altitude range, some elements of the exercises. "During the training sessions, the Russian units on the outskirts of the village of Panik practiced the group's ambush, in particular, the attack on the walking column of the headquarters.However, an agiotage that was raised by a group of people this time is not clear, "the source told ArmInfo with the 102nd RVB.
Recall that at the "Alagyaz" training ground of the Russian military base in Armenia this week, classes began with motorized rifle units in cooperation with calculations of complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Subdivisions made a 100-kilometer march to the area of accomplishment of tasks in order to achieve tactical superiority, performed reconnaissance of the actions of the conventional adversary with the use of UAV, and then struck the indicated targets on the coordinates of the weapons of combat vehicles, tanks, artillery pieces with the support of fighter and army aviation. Practical classes that will last until the end of this week attract about 2,000 troops and employ 300 military equipment, including unmanned, fighter and army aviation.