Levon Mnatsakanyan (Armenian: Լեւոն Մնացականյան; born 14 September 1965[1]) is a politician, and a former Minister of Defence of Artsakh.

On September 29, 2023, Azerbaijan detained Levon Mnatsakanyan from the territory of Artsakh, and since that moment he has been held in Baku as a captivity.

He graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia in 2005, which resulted in him returning to Artsakh later that year to become the deputy commander of the defense army.

He was appointed by President Bako Sahakyan in 2015 as defense minister, a position he served in for just over 3 years before he was replaced in December 2018.

[8] Mnatsakanyan was detained by Azerbaijani police on 29 September 2023 while attempting to cross the border into the Armenian city of Goris.