Military expert Vahagn Saroyan reacted to Nikol Pashinyan's statement on the release of two Azerbaijani captives without preconditions.

"The exchange of prisoners of war (POWs) and hostages is a common phenomenon in international practice. When asked what the two recently captured Azeri servicemen were returned for, Nikol Pashinyan says they were repatriated "without preconditions", adding that he does not want to give the impression that Armenia is engaged in ‘bargaining’,” the expert wrote on Facebook on Saturday.

“If we remove the populism, it means that there was no appropriate force and will to hold them or swap them for Armenian prisoners. Expressing their own fears under the guise of humanism is a common practice of the current authorities. If this is true, demand that our POWs and hostages be returned without preconditions! Isn't the return of our captives in exchange for minefield maps a bargain by the same logic?” he said.