Zatulin: During the war in Karabakh, Nikol Pashinyan had no right to declare himself supreme commander in chief

Arminfo.  During the war in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan had absolutely no right to declare himself the supreme commander in chief. A member of the State Duma Committee for CIS affairs and relations with compatriots, lawmaker Konstantin Zatulin, stated this during the video bridge. 

He explained that this is due to the fact that the matter concerned the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. "Secondly, the prime minister should become the supreme commander in chief exclusively during the period of hostilities. The war has not been officially declared. That is, he exploited the image of the supreme commander in chief for the sake of the so-called future political dividends, without expecting what will happen," Zatulin said, adding, that all this was accompanied by incompetent actions, carelessness and facts of betrayal, failure to comply with command.

According to him, the surrender of Shushi is a vivid example of this. "What Russian weapons had to do with the fact that the city of Shusha, which is in principle inaccessible for direct assault, which I know firsthand, since I was there many times - could have been so incompetently lost," the lawmaker wondered, adding that those Armenian lawmakers are interested in discrediting Russian weapons who did not get rid of their pro-Western orientation, who only muted it for a while, and now came out in order to show claims not only to weapons, but also to Russia as such.  Zatulin also stressed that Russian weapons in normal skillful hands achieve their goal. He also noted that the Prime Minister of Armenia so easily throws accusations (meaning the story with the Iskander missile system - ed. note) to shift the responsibility from himself on others."