2021
Lieutenant Vardan Harutyunyan is a military doctor. After graduating from the Faculty of Military Medicine of the Medical University, he left for service.
I had only served in Stepanakert for a few days when the war broke out. The dawn of September 27 opened with a thunderbolt for me.
There is so much hope, will and optimism in Ogita’s voice. I would very much like you to hear that voice with which he interpreted a philosophy of a complete and true life. If I had not known that only a few months ago she had lost her beloved husband in the war, the father of her three children, I would have thought that I was talking to a man who had no problems.
This is the second conscription after the war. The guys who are serving in the Central Command are the modern defenders of the homeland. They talk in a conversation typical of their region, make funny jokes, get acquainted, find common friends.
We were talking near the Shaki waterfall with the hero’s father, Seyran Poghosyan.
“As a child, Vrezh used to come here a lot to listen to Vorotan ‘s’ conversation,'” said the father, at whose invitation we were in Sisian. On July 1, Vrezh would have turned 29, but the last war was in 2020. He took the lives of thousands of Armenians in the fall … One of them was Vrezh.
An interview with the Ministry of Defense’ head of the Conscription and Mobilization Service Col. ARMEN AVTANDILYAN