The so-called President of self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan:
It was the hardest night of my life. I don't know how history will judge us about the decision we had yesterday.
Only yesterday we had faced great casualties in Khojavend. This was caused by UAVs.
We had lost a great portion of our land during the conflicts held in past 43 days. The clashes were being occurred only 2-3km away of Stepanakert.
If clashes had continued in this intensity, we would have lost all of the Karabakh with giving great casualties.
We could only resist against UAVs with our air defense systems for several days yet during the last two days the latest technology UAVs had caused us to give great casualties.