Military Honors Funeral to the pilots of the Karabakh Defense Army Mi-24 helicopter that was shot down by Azerbaijani armed force will start at 5:00 at the St. Sargiss Church in Nor Nork Administrative District in Yerevan on 24 November and will end at 8:00pm.
The Defense Ministry of Armenia told ArmInfo the remains of the killed pilots will be buried in the city pantheon "Yerablur" at 2:00pm on 25 November after a mourning procession.
The Azerbaijani armed forces downed an Armenian Mi-24 while it was conducting a training flight near the Line on Contact on 12 November. Three officers of the NKR Armed Forces, Sergey Sahakyan, Sargis Nazaryan and Azat Sahakyan, were on board. The Azeri officer that shot the helicopter down has been awarded a medal. On 22 November, the NKR Defense Army Special Forces recovered the body of a crewmember and the remains of the two pilots of Mi-24 helicopter that was downed by Azerbaijani forces on 12 November. The necessary wreckage was recovered too. Two Azerbaijani militaries were killed in the course of the special operation. The NKR Defense Army suffered no losses.