Intensive works being carried out to form new defensive lines on border of Vayots Dzor province

The Armenian Armed Forces continue strengthening the state border of Armenia and establish new defensive lines in areas that border the territories which have come under the Azerbaijani control after the recent Artsakh War. Intensive works are being carried out to establish new defensive lines on the border of Vayots Dzor.

On June 16, a group of Armenian reporters, accompanied by the representatives of the General Staff, visited the new military positions located in the direction of Jermuk to get acquainted with the border situation and ongoing works.

Photos by Tatev Duryan

The representatives of the armed forces told reporters that the Armenian servicemen fully control the situation and are ready to fulfill their duties at any moment.

“After the November 9 statement, we, the servicemen, have fulfilled all our tasks. In the period of November 17-29 the regiment built a new defense post where we are currently deployed in. The post ensures the defense of the state border, and currently large scale of works on engineering equipment of the post, construction of roads are underway”, Commander of N military unit Colonel Gegham Martirosyan said adding that it’s just a month the weather allows to carry out these works in the military positions. But not only the weather, the location of the site also complicate this process, he said.

The situation in that part of the Armenian state border was calm. The servicemen said no aggressive actions or incidents by the adversary are taking place.

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