Azerbaijan trying to provoke Artsakh side to open fire along border with Iran – Armenian defense ministry
07.10.2020,
10:08
Azerbaijani armed forces’ units having no sufficient capabilities to conduct effective offensive actions, have been resorting to obvious provocations for the second day, said Artsrun Hovhannisyan, spokesman for the Armenian defense ministry.
YEREVAN, October 7. /ARKA/. Azerbaijani armed forces’ units having no sufficient capabilities to conduct effective offensive actions, have been resorting to obvious provocations for the second day, said Artsrun Hovhannisyan, spokesman for the Armenian defense ministry.
"In particular, in the southern direction of the Artsakh-Azerbaijani military operations, Azerbaijani units in numerous groups are accumulating directly along the Artsakh-Iranian border (along the Araks River) and, in fact, hiding behind this border, they are trying to move forward," he wrote on his Facebook page.
According to Hovhannisyan, with such tactics the Azerbaijani side is trying to provoke the Artsakh side to open fire or strike along the border, in fact, in the direction of Iran.
“It is also not ruled out that as a result of hostilities, Azerbaijani units, having no alternative, will retreat or flee to Iranian territory. In order to avoid all this, we believe that the Iranian side, which undoubtedly sees all this, should cross or force to refrain from such accumulations,” he explained.
War in Artsakh
On September 27, at 07:10, Azerbaijani troops launched an offensive along the entire length of the contact line in Artsakh, but were thrown back in several directions. Intense fighting continues in the south, southeast and north of the front line. Turkey joined the aggression. Residential areas are being shelled as well.
The Azerbaijani side suffered losses in manpower (more than 3,454 people killed and around 5,000 wounded) and equipment, in particular, 220 UAVs, 3 units of TOS – 1A, 4 Smerch and Uragan MLRS, more than 368 tanks and other armored vehicles, 16 helicopters and 17 aircraft. According to the data of the defense ministry of Armenia and Artsakh, more than 220 Armenian servicemen were killed and hundreds wounded on the Armenian side. Also 21 civilians were killed and 82 wounded on the Armenian side.
Armenia informed the international community, including the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, about the aggression by Azerbaijan against Artsakh, also about the shelling of peaceful settlements.
Martial law and general mobilization were declared in Artsakh and Armenia. -0---
"In particular, in the southern direction of the Artsakh-Azerbaijani military operations, Azerbaijani units in numerous groups are accumulating directly along the Artsakh-Iranian border (along the Araks River) and, in fact, hiding behind this border, they are trying to move forward," he wrote on his Facebook page.
According to Hovhannisyan, with such tactics the Azerbaijani side is trying to provoke the Artsakh side to open fire or strike along the border, in fact, in the direction of Iran.
“It is also not ruled out that as a result of hostilities, Azerbaijani units, having no alternative, will retreat or flee to Iranian territory. In order to avoid all this, we believe that the Iranian side, which undoubtedly sees all this, should cross or force to refrain from such accumulations,” he explained.
War in Artsakh
On September 27, at 07:10, Azerbaijani troops launched an offensive along the entire length of the contact line in Artsakh, but were thrown back in several directions. Intense fighting continues in the south, southeast and north of the front line. Turkey joined the aggression. Residential areas are being shelled as well.
The Azerbaijani side suffered losses in manpower (more than 3,454 people killed and around 5,000 wounded) and equipment, in particular, 220 UAVs, 3 units of TOS – 1A, 4 Smerch and Uragan MLRS, more than 368 tanks and other armored vehicles, 16 helicopters and 17 aircraft. According to the data of the defense ministry of Armenia and Artsakh, more than 220 Armenian servicemen were killed and hundreds wounded on the Armenian side. Also 21 civilians were killed and 82 wounded on the Armenian side.
Armenia informed the international community, including the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, about the aggression by Azerbaijan against Artsakh, also about the shelling of peaceful settlements.
Martial law and general mobilization were declared in Artsakh and Armenia. -0---
