ArmInfo. With the mediation of the peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the search for the missing people and the removal of the bodies of the victims is underway. The Armenian Unified Information Center reports. <The search operations agreed with the parties are carried out on a daily basis, covering all the border directions of Artsakh.
The return of prisoners of war and the exchange of bodies of the killed are one of the priorities of the state authorities, towards which comprehensive efforts continue. As part of this process, ICRC staff visited servicemen and civilians in Azerbaijani captivity, "the center said.
To note, the parents and relatives of the missing servicemen have been protesting for several days, demanding information about their whereabouts. Yesterday they were received by Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan. However, today they again took to the streets and in the first half of the day they gathered at the Russian Embassy in Armenia, where they handed over a letter with a request for help addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now they have come to the Armenian government again, and demand certainty in the search of missing people. It is also worth noting that the total number of missing persons is not known to this day. Relevant government agencies do not provide any comprehensible information on this issue. The total number of dead and wounded during the fighting has not been announced.