On 16 January President Bako Sahakyan signed a decree, according to which serviceman of the NKR Defense Army’s N division Garik Vardanyan was posthumously awarded with the “For Service in Battle” medal for bravery shown during the defense of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic state border.
Private of the NKR Defense Army Garik Artashes Vardanyan, born in 1996, succumbed to wounds at the military hospital in Yerevan on January 15.
The NKR Defense Ministry shares the sorrow of the heavy loss and expresses its condolences to Garik Vardanyan’s family and friends.
