ArmInfo. We lost the war mainly because of the UAV. It is not clear why we bought the Su-30 SM, an offensive weapon, while we need to defend ourselves. Former Prime Minister of Armenia Hrant Bagratyan stated this at a press conference. He noticed that it was not our only mistake. "The next mistake is the creation of a centralized air defense system instead of dispersing these forces. This very centralized air defense was destroyed on the 27th of the month at 7:30 in Shushi.
In all of Karabakh, we had 7 air defense missile systems-TOR divisions, while we needed 30. For 140 million dollars, one could buy at least 7 <TOR>. 85% of our military equipment has been destroyed," Bagratyan emphasized.
According to him, there are three groups of reasons for defeat: political, military-technical, organizational. "The first sub-clause of the political reason was that Armenia did not and still does not recognize the independence of the NKR. Even now, Nikol does not have the courage to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh. The second political mistake was that there was an anti-Russian line. The third strategic mistake was that we offended Iran so much that it did not want to let cargo through its territory.
The fourth strategic mistake is ruined relations with Georgia. The fifth mistake is a slap in the face to China at the level of Tigran Avinyan (RA Deputy Prime Minister - ed.note). China, which claims to be an anti-Turkish state.
Another political mistake: we are satisfied with our relations with the French state, but Western Europe is allied with the United States. The discussion in the UN Security Council failed due to Britain, "the former prime minister said.
"The main organizational reason for the defeat in the war is poor work in the rear. It was organized worse than 27 years ago. I could not imagine that more than half of the army did not have "bulletproof vests", ninety percent of the victims are the result of their absence. Personnel issues became another mistake of the war. Grigory Khachaturov, the son of Yuri Khachaturov, means he is under pressure, Onik Gasparyan is from Ijevan, which means he must be at his best, "Bagratyan emphasized.
He also recalled that the war began in the south, as the terrain there is flat, and it is more convenient for UAVs to work there, in addition, there is a gold mine in Askeran. "The southern corps should have been better fortified. After the setbacks, an order was given to counterattack, encircle, destroy the enemy. Figuratively speaking, 1000 people were supposed to surround 10,000 people. How is this possible? The Prime Minister's wife intervened in this order. And the southern corps was destroyed. What did Anna Hakobyan have to do with the officers' participation in the meetings?
All these decisions were made by Armen Sarkissian, Nikol Pashinyan, Onik Gasparyan, David Tonoyan, Andranik Kocharyan, Vagharshak Harutyunyan, "concluded Bagratyan.