The Armenia bloc pointed out the inadmissibility of handing over an enemy soldier to his homeland as a gesture of "goodwill."

ArmInfo. Surrendering an armed Azerbaijani who infiltrated Armenia as a sign of "goodwill," while ignoring the fact that Armenian prisoners of war are still being held in Baku, is unacceptable. Anna Grigoryan, head of the Armenia faction, responded to the incident in the village of Shaki in Armenia's Syunik region, where an Azerbaijani soldier armed with a machine gun entered a house and wounded the woman in front of her three children.

In a video message published on her Facebook page, she noted that the Azerbaijani had been on Armenian sovereign territory for about two days, and was only neutralized by law enforcement on October 1. "And then, only after he entered one of our compatriots' homes and harmed the woman in the presence of three children." "Can you imagine, the law enforcement system allegedly tried to find him for two days, but couldn't," Grigoryan pointed out.

The faction leader expressed her conviction that if the issue had concerned an opposition figure, they would have been found long ago, laid out on the "pavement," and then arrested. The opposition leader called the lack of any communication with the residents of this village the most shameful and unacceptable thing in this situation. "They knew there was infiltration from the Ishkhanasar side. In this situation, at the very least, it was necessary to establish effective communication with the population of the Sisian region, so that a mother of three children wouldn't accidentally discover an Azerbaijani in her home. That is, at least to exercise vigilance. But no discussions, no communication. And, probably, this was done so that "silently" "Find this Azerbaijani and hand him over to Azerbaijan as a sign of goodwill," Grigoryan believes.

In this regard, she recalled how three years ago two Azerbaijanis infiltrated Armenia, and then one of them killed a worker at the Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine (ZCMK) in Kapan. And then, as the opposition leader noted, he was handed over to Azerbaijan as a sign of "goodwill." In view of the current situation, the leader of the Armenia faction also called for not forgetting that Armenian prisoners of war are still being held in Baku. "People holding blue passports of the Republic of Armenia are being held in Baku." "And don't try to mislead the people by claiming this is an act of goodwill, that you're preserving peace in this way," the opposition figure emphasized.

In this vein, she noted that whenever representatives of the Armenian Armed Forces, whether in Ishkhanasar or in the village of Nerkin Khand, found themselves in territory under Azerbaijani control—and this happened because Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was gradually ceding territories—Azerbaijan did not return them as a sign of goodwill. "He always demanded something in return. Now we can again say that we are the losing side, we don't have the resources, we must value peace, and not respond to every shot with a shot—that is, promote defeatist and humiliating narratives." "But simply handing over this Azerbaijani as a gesture of good faith, forgetting that we have compatriots in Baku who send messages from captivity almost daily and are subjected to torture, is unacceptable," Grigoryan concluded.

It became known on the afternoon of October 1 that Azerbaijani serviceman Nasimi Musayev entered the home of a resident of the village of Shake in the Syunik region and wounded her. It later emerged that the woman's two minor children, who were helping their mother defend herself from the attack, were also injured. A statement from the Armenian National Security Service revealed that Armenian and Azerbaijani authorities had been searching for the serviceman since September 29, but no security outreach was conducted, and residents of the region were kept in the dark. Furthermore, Azerbaijani media reported that the search for the Azerbaijani serviceman had been underway since September 26. His whereabouts during this period are still unknown. Later, Armenian Health Minister Ananit Avanesyan reported that the woman's condition was stable and she was receiving the necessary medical care. Initially, competent Armenian authorities opened a criminal case on charges of illegal entry into a home, illegal possession of weapons and ammunition, and causing grievous bodily harm committed with the use of a weapon. Only after public outcry did the Prosecutor General's Office also announce the opening of a criminal case on charges of illegally crossing the Armenian state border.