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On November 7, we completely lost control of the city of Shushi.
I do not know how history will evaluate the decision we made yesterday, but we were obliged to.
Had the hostilities continued at the same pace, we would have lost the whole of Artsakh in a matter of days.
We had great human losses yesterday in the Martuni region, during the last hours.
The army was exhausted with Covid.
We did not want to believe that it was impossible to fight with the potential of the human and military equipment that existed.
We were forced [to make this decision] so that there would be no more losses. We fought against the forces of 8 countries.
I spoke with representatives of the elite, among them Bako Sahakyan, Arkady Ghukasyan, Vitaly Balasanyan and others, and they are all ready to cooperate and work with us. We are holding consultations with them.
Everyone [of the above] said that a temporary or final truce was inevitable. Otherwise, we would have lost all of Artsakh in a matter of days. There were no resources to continue the fight.
It seems that we managed to defend ourselves from drones for several days, but already in the last two days the enemy, I do not know how, through new technologies or new drones, had the opportunity to inflict great damage on our troops again.
Why did it not succeed? We will all answer, yes all of us. All of us who have held positions in recent decades. In general, there will be an assessment of the state of the army in the future.
The morale of the troops was not very good, in some places it can be said that it was extremely bad.
Exhausted by hemorrhoids, dysentery, and Covid.
The army was on the front line for 43 days, and we did not have the opportunity to change, rest or heal
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They were arguing whether Shushi was in our hands or not, we had lost the main control since November 5, completely since November 7
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