Yerevan /Mediamax/. Deputy Commander of Russian Southern Military Okrug Rustam Muradov believes that the issue of return of Armenian prisoners of war "should be closed”.

“To date, all the servicemen of the Azerbaijani side have been returned, and the work on the return of the Armenian prisoners of war continues, there is a good positive, there is understanding. I believe that this issue should be completely closed. And the Russian peacekeepers will bring this matter to the end,” Rustam Muradov said in an interview with TASS.

He noted that he considers the work on the return of prisoners as a civil duty of a peacekeeper.

“As a military man, I understand who the prisoners of war are, what feelings they experienced while in captivity. I remember the first flight, when we flew to Baku, and on my return I saw the faces of those servicemen when they had already flown to Yerevan. Those were tears, they did not believe that they had returned home,” Rustam Muradov said.