Hayk Sargsyan, deputy of the Civil Contract faction and a National Defense and Security Affairs Committee member, told Aravot. am that he is hearing the news about 11,000 defectors for the first time. “I have some data on how many servicemen avoided conscription, but I did not hear exactly what you said; let me not comment,” he said. We checked whether your number is close to 11 thousand defectors, Hayk Sargsyan answered.
“According to my information, many people are released from the draft each year for various reasons.” And he said that he does not have data on deserters who left the battlefield during martial law. Let’s remind that Prime Minister’s wife, Anna Hakobyan, announced that during the war, we had 11 thousand of deserters. Meanwhile, according to the data provided to 168. am by the prosecutor’s office, 214 criminal cases have been initiated on the grounds of war desertion, in which 59 servicemen were involved as accused.
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