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Several houses were damaged due to enemy shelling in Verishen on the night of the 13th, there was no fire in the direction of the village today

Several houses were damaged due to enemy shelling in Verishen on the night of the 13th, there was no fire in the direction of the village today

The enemy did not fire in the direction of the village of Verishen of the Goris community today, at this moment there were no shots. Artillery explosions are heard in the village, but they are directed towards the neighboring village of Akner, from where we will later report on the situation. The enemy shelled Verishen on the night of the 13th. Several houses were damaged in the village. As soon as the sounds of explosions were heard, Samvel Dadunts, along with his family, took refuge in the basement of the house, and the shell fell directly into the basement․ Samvel Dadunts "At night, when it started, we went into the basement, to a safe place, waited to see what will happen, and then we heard a loud boom, there was fog, dust, we couldn't see each other, somehow we escaped," says Samvel Dadunts with his wife Eprasya Zadayan adding: "My daughter-in-law screamed at the basement door, we left the basement, rested a bit, then went to see what had happened. We came up, turned on the light, saw that it had collapsed." The basement where the shell fell Fortunately, the family members were not injured. The house is damaged, the windows of the house are broken, the basement wall is demolished, cars are damaged. Dadunts shows the broken parts of the car. While we were talking other neighbors come out: neighboring houses and neighbors' cars were also affected by the explosion. Saida and Spartak Dadunts' approach, showing their car, which is out of order. The woman points to a large water tank (each tinplate is about three mm thick), from one wall of which a shell fragment pierced, from the other side came out: imagine that fragment hitting someone's body. Saida and Spartak Dadunts' and their damaged car The house of one of the neighbors, Rafik Bakunts, was severely damaged by the wave of the shell explosion that fell into the basement of the Dadunts'. The scenes are the same: broken windows, glasses on the ground, cracked walls. Bakunts says that at 12 am, when the enemy started shooting, the children were taken to a safe place: "I woke them up at night, we took the children, only my daughter-in-law and I were left but then we went there too". Rafik Bakunts shows his damaged car Then she went home early to turn off the light and took warm clothes, because it was very cold at night, and just at the moment when she was leaving the house, a shell fell near the house of Dadunts. Bakunts says: "I don't know what happened to me at that moment, the ringing is still in my ears, ringing in my head, I somehow managed to get out, run to a safe place." Later they came home and saw that everything was broken, destroyed. The windows of the house of Rafik Bakunts Rafik Bakunts shows fragments In Verishen, people continue to live their daily lives. You can also meet children in the backyards, although some of them took their children out of the village for safety reasons. Seeing us off, Rafik Bakunts says that we have great soldiers, "our guys are doing a great job," he says wishing that "next time we would go to film a wedding." Hayarpi Baghdasaryan
12:49 - 14 September, 2022
BBC's claim about Russia transferring Syrian mercenaries through Armenia is unfounded

BBC's claim about Russia transferring Syrian mercenaries through Armenia is unfounded

Yesterday the BCC published a video about mercenaries from Syria being sent to Russia to fight Ukraine. In the video, a Syrian tells how people are recruited and taken away, but does not indicate anything specific about the route by which the militants get from Syria to Russia. The video of the BBC tells that in the early days of the Russian-Ukrainian war, information was spread in the Turkish press that mercenaries from Syria arrived in Armenia and were transferred to Russia. As confirmation of the claims of the Turkish press, the BBC reports that it found Russian RA-85041 aircraft, which "a few days after the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war took off from Syrian Latakia to Yerevan's “Erebuni” airport, and then to the Russian Mozdok." The British media also presents the trajectory of the aircraft. The RA-85041 aircraft belonging to the Russian Air Force, mentioned by the BBC, actually arrived in Armenia after the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, then went to Russia.Source "Flightradar24" The “Flightradar24” platform, which tracks aircraft flights, shows that on February 27, at 07:59, the RA-85041 took off from Latakia and landed in Armenia at 11:48.  Despite the fact that “Flightradar24” notes that the plane landed at "Zvartnots" airport, the map shows that the plane actually landed at the "Erebuni" military airport.In the picture: "Zvartnots" is marked in red, "Erebuni" is marked in yellow The flightaware.com website notes that the plane landed at the "Erebuni" airport. Then the plane left Armenia at 15:53 for Russia.The flight from Armenia to Russia On the same day, the plane returned to Latakia, but not through the airspace of Armenia. On February 28, at 13:00, the plane flew from Latakia to Armenia and landed in "Erebuni" at 16:20. On the same day, the plane took off from Armenia to the Russian airport "Privolzhskiy". From there, the RA-85041 took off for Chkalovskiy airport. However, the fact that a plane arrived from Syria to Armenia, then to Russia, is not yet a reason to claim that Syrian mercenaries were transported by that plane. If Russia wanted to transfer mercenaries from Syria, it is not necessary to land in Armenia first and then leave for Russia. It shows on "Flightradar24" that both before and after the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, there were direct flights from Syria to Russia and back on this plane. On January 30, for example, there was a direct flight from Latakia to Moscow. Such a flight was made on February 18 as well. On March 19, after the start of the war, this plane had a direct flight from Damascus to Moscow, and on March 25 - a flight from Latakia to Moscow. To transfer mercenaries from Latakia or another part of Syria, it’s not necessary to do it through Armenia. The fact that the Russian RA-85041 plane arrived from Syria to the Armenian "Erebuni" airport, and from there flew to the Russian Federation, doesn’t prove the fact of transferring mercenaries on that plane. In addition, the Armenian side has officially denied this information. “The false news that terrorists are being transferred to Ukraine through the territory of Armenia is presented as truth. Every more or less informed one knows that Armenia, which suffered from the involvement of mercenary-terrorists in the war against it two years ago, can never contribute to their involvement in other places, this is completely absurd information,” Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at today’s Government session. The Turkish source noted by the BBC is "Haber Global", which claims that Russian mercenaries from Mozdok moved from the Middle East through Armenia, without substantiating their claims in any way. The same media spread the information about Armenia providing Russia with Su-30, which was later denied both by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, as well as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Thus, the BBC, as a justification for the information spread by the Turkish media, cites the fact that the Russian RA-85041 plane arrived from Syria at the Armenian “Erebuni” airport and left for Russia. However, the media doesn’t present other facts. The fact of the arrival and departure of the plane doesn’t prove in any way that Syrian mercenaries were transferred.
16:51 - 31 March, 2022