I find Vartan lying in the hospital room. The right hand is immobilezed with iron rods, there are scars left on the masculine face, still not completely healed.

We are in Verin Dvin, where the largest Assyrian community in Armenia is concentrated. Assyrian children sell persimmons and tangerines in front of the municipality.

Dilbar is a Yezidi nurse who went to the front line with the Yezidi detachment, through whose efforts precious lives were saved and the dangers to health were reduced.

Indomitable, determined, brave … In the eyes of a soldier radiating boundless longing, love and warmth to his country, his relatives, his friends and compatriots, the driving force of his heroism will be hardened.

“Armenia, country of paradise”… The poet admired-loved-worshiped, did not call for heroism, did not give a message to the generations to keep this rocky-difficult land… Country of paradise, he said, and we understood that our share is here, this little one, on a rocky, native land, here is our paradise, our home, our root. Our homeland.

This young hero, who destroyed ten enemy tanks in a matter of days, comes and sits modestly to talk to me. The eyes are clear, the gaze is bright and luminous. Sergeant Edgar Markosyan is the Deputy Commander of a battery, the Commander of the Squadron, who has shown exceptional dedication, courage and professionalism during the combat operations.

Many soldiers and volunteers who were wounded as a result of the large-scale war unleashed by Azerbaijan are receiving treatment in various medical centers of the capital.