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Soldier Tigran S. Simonyan received a fatal gunshot wound on February 10 while defending its fighting post in one of the military units of the NKR Defense Army, located in the north line of the contact line with the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, reports the press service of NKR Defense Army, adding that the incident is under investigation.

However, the Azerbaijani side once again falsified the official information about the losses of the Armenian side. According to the official website of Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense, the Azerbaijani armed forces had allegedly killed "members of Armenian reconnaissance and sabotage groups," as well as the "commander of a group of special forces Tigran Simonyan." Azerbaijani information portal "Haqqin.az", in its turn, reports that the Armenian side has confirmed the death of a soldier.

The head of the press service of the NKR Defense Army Senor Hasratyan in an interview to Panorama.am stated that the Azerbaijani propaganda presents aforementioned soldier Tigran Simonyan, who was deadly wounded, as a commander of "intelligence group." "This is another provocation of the Azerbaijani side. NKR Defense Ministry has reported that the investigation is underway as a result of which the details of the death of the soldier will be cleared out. The Armenian side made no sabotage operations: activities leading to sabotage contradict our disposition," he said.

Recently Azerbaijani media spread disinformation about the losses of the Armenian side. Thus, the Azerbaijani news agency "APA", referring to "the Armenian media," reports that allegedly last night two soldiers of the Armed Forces of Armenia were killed, at the same time it claims that the name of the second soldier is not reported. However, the press service of Artsakh Defense Army has officially confirmed the death of one of the soldiers on the line of duty - Shakespeare Hakobyan (born in 1990). There are no reports of the second unconfirmed combat losses from the Armenian side in the Armenian media. In order to clarify the situation Panorama.am turned to the press secretary of the Armenian Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan. "No wonder, another disinformation extended by Azerbaijan. The Armenian side has given one combat loss which the official website of the NKR Defense Army had published. We are not tended to hide information about our losses from our society," Artsrun Hovhannisyan said.