Commander of Armenian peacekeeping unit in Kazakhstan says key task was to stop terrorists from poisoning water supply

One of the key objectives of the Armenian peacekeeping unit in Almaty, Kazakhstan, was preventing the rampaging terrorists from poisoning the local water supply, the unit’s commander Major Hayrapet Mkrtchyan told journalists, reports TASS.

“One of the main tasks at the Druzhba water supply facility was the prevention of the water [supply] from being poisoned”, he stated.

According to the commander, the water supply facility is a strategic object and quite possibly it could have been targeted for contamination by the terrorists.

In Almaty, in addition to the Druzhba waterworks, the Arme...