On May 28, Republic Day, Artsakh’s musician Vardan Galstyan presented his song “Pilots”, which is dedicated to the pilots of the helicopter that was downed during a flight in training on the Artsakh-Azerbaijan border on November 12, 2014, the “Artsakhn Aysor” news center reports to “Armenpress”.

According to the songwriter, people must keep the memory of the brave Armenians alive and learn from their heroic act.

On November 12, 2014 at around 1345, the MI24 helicopter of the Military Air Forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was downed as a result of a ceasefire violation committed by the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan during a flight in training in the aerial territory in the eastern sector of the Artsakh-Azerbaijan border. The opponent continued to fire shots towards the scene of the incident for a couple of days with weapons of different diameters, disregarding the calls of the international community to cease fire in order to dislocate the bodies. The commander of the personnel was Major Sergey Sahakyan. The other two soldiers were Lieutenant Aazat Sahakyan and Senior Lieutenant Sargis Nazaryan. The soldiers of the special subdivision eventually managed to dislocate the bodies of the soldiers without suffering any casualties.