S.Tepankurt, drawn on Nagorno-Karabakhk a Gurney, is wrapped in a soldier’s gauze. A paramedic in the back of the ambulance, which runs seven hours from Nagorno-Karabakh to the Armenian capital Yerevan, says fifty percent of his body was burned inside his throat and lungs. War broke out about a month ago between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed border area.
An ambulance was snatched outside Stepnecart amid air raid sirens as the city’s Azerbaijani firing resumed after a six-day hiatus. Only the burnt lips of the soldier, a small part of his nose and his burnt wings are visible. The hope of its survival is linked to beeping breath and two paramedics inject it continuously with morphine and saline solutions.
Journalists have been kept away from soldiers and the direct impact of the war in recent days, but the plans, fed up with Stepenkart’s revived firing, suddenly find themselves behind the ambulance, giving the human being a casual glimpse. The consequences of war.
Kamikaz drones purchased from Israel have been used by Azerbaijan for destructive effect. These small crafts, also known as lottery munitions, are capable of surveying targets, including tanks, artillery installations or troops, before they blow themselves up. Large Turkish drones are also flying high over the disputed area and launching missile strikes.
While the ambulance soldier has been unable to tell medics how badly he was injured, his head injuries and extensive burns are consistent with what has been seen from the drone attack, a doctor cutter at a hospital in Stepnecart told the Daily Beast.
One paramedic in the ambulance said, “He was damaged on the front line. We need help here. We need to stop the war. What happened is terrible. ”
Before leaving the battlefield and entering the relative safety of Armenia, the respirator has a problem. A female paramedic begins to pump air manually into the lungs of wounded soldiers. While they were about to lose the soldier, the ambulance came to a complete stop, while the driver was trying to restart the motor system. Shelling can be heard in the distance.
The mountains echo the sound, making it difficult to tell whether the shelling is near or far, but it cannot hide the inconvenience of a duty employee among other bomb blasts.
Bloody battle in the making
The battle of Nagorno-Karabakh, which was controlled by the self-proclaimed Republic of Arf Republic, broke out on Sept. 27. The Artesakh is a small mountain pocket in the Caucasus, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but has been claiming independence for almost 30 years. The population is almost entirely ethnic Armenian and the scattered state is supported by Armenia. The republic declared independence after the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which lasted from 1980 to the end of the 1994s, killing 30,000 people.
Since then, the controversy over this area has continued. The two sides fought a four-day war in 2016, but the current fighting is the worst in the region since the devastating war of the 1990s. Armenia says it has lost about 900 servicemen, while Azerbaijan does not disclose its death toll. However, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, about 1,000 people have died, and there are many reports of major damage to military hardware, such as tanks, on both sides, despite talks with Russia as the main mediator in Moscow.
The armistice operation is broken and the crisis is of global importance. Nagorno-Karabakh is located next to regional superpowers such as Turkey, which supports Azerbaijan militarily and politically in the conflict. At the same time, Russia has a defense agreement with Armenia, which has made the situation tense. The Republic of ArtShak is also located next to Iran, a major player in the region.
According to the BBC, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said: “We must be careful that the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan does not become a regional war.
“We have long declared it dead without tanks … but in the current crisis the tanks have not performed well”
– Ian Williams, Missile Defense Specialist
The war in Washington and Washington is also drawing more attention, with DC Secretary of State Mike Pompeo being the leader of both Azerbaijan and Armenia seemingly for fruitful negotiations, while others, including Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), have called for an immediate ceasefire.
“Azerbaijan’s aggressive actions, fully supported by Turkey in Nagorno-Karabakh and against Armenia, must stop.” “Azerbaijan will continue its efforts to resolve this conflict through the illegal use of military force, so the international community will have no choice but to move in the direction of recognizing the independence of the republic of Artasakh.”
He is to die
Back in the ambulance, the soldier is fighting for his life. Occasionally he seems to regain consciousness for a long time due to pain. Before the ambulance left for the Armenian capital, Yerevan, the flow of ambulances carrying wounded soldiers with empty stasis and missing limbs from Stepnecart was temporarily stopped. The air raid sirens started screaming at Stepnekart for the first time in several days, as Azerbaijani forces attacked the city, which reportedly had both aircraft and artillery. Dr city cutters, nurses and patients rushed to the basement of a city hospital, while nearby explosions were heard, the bunker trembling.
“We can see them on our radar, but [the Turkish drones] Fly too high for us to land them”
– Vladimir Vartanyan, military analyst of the Artusk Republic
A doctor at the bunker, who did not want to be named because of a ban on speaking to the media, told the Daily Beast that about 1,000 soldiers and 300 to 400 civilians had been pronounced dead at three hospitals in Artesakh. These numbers indicate more than 900 casualties officially recorded by the Ministry of Defense in Artesakh, especially since the bodies of some soldiers are never recovered from the front line.
“We see a lot of soldiers with burns and head injuries,” says the doctor, pointing to a room in the bunker where a soldier with serious brain injuries is undergoing surgery. “Turkish drones used by Azerbaijan often cause brain damage to soldiers.”
He is referring to the Azerbaijani use of the Turkish-built barracks TB2 drone, despite Armenian aid.
“We can’t shoot him”
Open source analysis collected by Forbes The magazine traced the destruction by about 200 tanks, infantry combat vehicles and armed personnel carriers, plus 300 soft-skinned military vehicles, as well as radar, short-range air defense systems and missile launch vehicles.
The people of Armen do not have a drone army with which to attack Azerbaijani targets.
In an interview with the Daily Beast, Suress Sarumyan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, claimed that the Republic of the United States was capable of intercepting many drones, but acknowledged that unmanned aerial vehicles were taking toll.
“Drones affect the front line, but our soldiers are among the strongest in the world because they are strong and fight hard,” Saromyan said. “The secret is that our soldiers defend their home. And it’s so big it’s hard to beat them, even with all the drones in the world. “
While the military claims they can shoot down drones like the Beyktar TB2, military analyst Vladimir Vartanyan, who is part of the press department of the Artesian Republic, disagrees.
“We can see them on our radar, but [the Turkish drones] Let them fly very high for us to land, ”he said. He explained that much of the ArtSuch defense is a remnant from 1991 to 1994 and that the need to upgrade it is bad “we use everything we’ve done now because this is a complete war.” “In my opinion, we need to buy some Russian systems, who have experience shooting these drones in Syria.”
With reports of a large regional gain in the southern part of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Vartanyan said: “It is necessary that we start beating him very quickly.”
According to the Middle East Eye, Azerbaijan has previously confirmed that it is using Turkish drones in the war.
“What we see right now in Nagorno-Karabakh is the evolution of war,” Ian Williams, an expert on missile defense and missile proliferation at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ international security program, told the Daily Beast.
“We have long announced that it will die without becoming a tank. However, Armenian tanks have not performed well in the current crisis, “said Williams. “Drones are relatively cheap for countries that can’t afford air support in general. The current crisis shows us what kind of damage they can do to an opponent without a drone. “
He may not make
A paramedic holds the soldier’s head as the ambulance comes up and down the mountains. The respirator is working again, and the sound of air pumping into the soldier’s lungs resumes. On his way to Yerevan, one of the paramedics received news that a friend had died near the front line. Ambulances are in a state of disarray as reports of airstrikes in some cities in the Artesian Republic emerge.
As he approaches Yerevan, the soldier begins to move his arms involuntarily while fracturing his chest. A second shot of morphine eased the situation, but the paramedic was asked if the soldier would be safe after arriving at a hospital in the Armenian capital.
“Injuries can just be so much more,” he says.
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