In 2016, during the April war, a tanker from Gyumri, Tigran Abgaryan, was killed.

His elder brother, Zhora, decided to help the army in some way and began to collect tires to strengthen the positions.

Zhora has been doing this for about 4 years, with hundreds of volunteers who joined him. He also created a Combat Training Club. To volunteer during the battles that started in Tavush in 2020, and then during the second Artsakh war.

“It is very difficult to comfort parents who have lost a child. Honestly, I do not know what to do. Society, everyone approaches all this differently. There are people who say, yes, it was, it has been, but it has passed; but no one presumes that a family that has lost a son, a husband, a parent can never forget all this. And now that we live, forgetting all that again, naturally it will be a second blow to everyone. I cannot imagine, they live a normal life, as if nothing happened a few months ago and it causes more pain to all of us.

Now many will say, but what to do? What is right? It is not just living. If we live as I said, engage in the military industry, strengthen our homeland, this will motivate the family of the deceased, wounded soldier, but now we are not doing anything. If we do different things for the sake of our guys, of course, the parents will feel stronger themselves. It is not necessary to go to the house of the deceased, to say, we have come to comfort you. There will be no change in almost anyone in this case…

What we saw was the second heaviest blow,” Zhora Abgaryan says.