The State Emergency Situations Service of the Artsakh Republic informs:

“Rescue detachments of the Department of Rescue Forces of the Artsakh State Emergency Situations Service continue the search for the bodies of servicemen killed in the war.

Since 13 November, with the intervention of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Russian peacekeeping troops, Artsakh rescue teams and sapper groups have been participating in the actual search operations..

Every day, the director of the State Emergency Situations Service, Major General Karen Sargsyan, meets with the parents of the killed, missing or captured servicemen. The results of search operations carried out by rescuers are discussed, opinions are exchanged, mutual proposals are accepted.

The search and exchange of bodies of the killed servicemen is almost completed in the directions of Shushi and Martakert, in the vicinity of the town of Martuni, in the upper sub-region of Askeran, as well as in the directions of Hadrut and Fizuli.

Following the talks, the search will soon continue in the southern part of Hadrut, which is under Azerbaijani control, in Mekhakavan and other settlements.

NOTE: State Emergency Situations Service is not a negotiating party. Artsakh rescuers are actively involved in the search. Besides, by the order of the director of the service, Major-General Karen Sargsyan, an operative headquarters was set up, where factual information about the servicemen is collected, mapped and passed to the negotiating parties.”