ArmInfo.Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia David Tonoyan held a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin. As reported by the press service of the RA Defense Ministry, during the meeting David Tonoyan highly assessed the role and efforts of the Russian Federation to resolve the military-political situation in the region, as well as the activities of the RF peacekeeping mission in Artsakh.
According to the source, the parties emphasized the importance of coordinating the peacekeeping forces of the Russian Federation and the International Committee of the Red Cross on the exchange of dead servicemen, prisoners of war, hostages and identification of the missing.
The Minister once again expressed his condolences to the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in connection with the shot down Russian Mi-24 helicopter from MANPADS over the territory of Armenia outside the combat zone near the border with Azerbaijan (Nakhijevan), as a result of which two people were killed and another was injured. David Tonoyan handed over to Sergei Kopyrkin the decree of the President of Armenia on awarding the crew members of the downed helicopter Yuri Viktorovich Ishuk (posthumously), Roman Vasilyevich Fedin (posthumously) and Vladislav Sergeevich Gryazin with a medal "For Military Merit".