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The last war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict region has only lasted five days. But it is already clear: the deadly brutality with which the two countries attack each other is unique in the world today.
On Friday, Armenia reported the strongest attack to date against the capital of the unrecognized “Republic of Artsakh”. The city of Stepanakert (55,000 inhabitants) was hit by Azerbaijani artillery. Ten civilians are said to have been injured. BILD analyzed the video footage of the attack.
While the attack appeared to have targeted a military base 400 meters away, at least one shell landed in a nearby parking lot and caused havoc.
▶ ︎ 1,750 Azerbaijani soldiers claim to have killed Armenia in the first five days of the conflict. Azerbaijan claims to have killed 2,300 Armenian soldiers since Sunday.
For comparison: the war between the two countries from 1992 to 1994 claimed about 25,000 deaths, that is, “only” five times more in just under 24 months.
Numbers that are hard to believe. But the information could be correct if you watch the numerous videos that Azerbaijan in particular publishes every day. In it you can see: massive drone attacks against military units and troop concentrations, at the end of which vehicles burn or dozens of Armenian soldiers lie dead on the ground.
Armenia also posted videos of artillery strikes against enemy units, machine gun attacks on soldiers with many deaths, and footage of trucks full of dead Azerbaijani soldiers.
Media: In fact, after nearly a week of intense fighting between the countries, thousands of soldiers from both sides could have died. Added to this is the loss of civilians on both sides!
Armenia had killed 19 of its civilians as of Friday, according to Azerbaijan. This was announced by the Attorney General’s Office in Baku. However, Yerevan said that Azerbaijani missiles had killed 11 Armenian civilians. At least 30 civilian victims in total, to whom, according to official information, almost 100 were injured on both sides.
Azerbaijan launched an offensive last Sunday to reconquer the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is part of Azerbaijan under international law. The current escalation is the most serious since 1994.
Previously, the country, ruled autocratically by the ruler Ilham Aliyev, had bought large quantities of modern weapons, mostly combat drones, from Israel and Turkey. This now appears to give oil-rich Azerbaijan a decisive advantage over poor Armenia, which is struggling with outdated weapons from Russian and Soviet stocks.
Photo: LUSI SARGSYAN / Reuters
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Erdogan’s mercenaries in Azerbaijan
Meanwhile, it became known that Turkey is sending Syrian mercenaries to Azerbaijan to provide military support to the local “brother people”.
As reported by the Reuters news agency, 1,000 mercenaries from Syria are currently being used in the conflict. Two Syrian fighters said that for economic reasons they were forced to earn a living as mercenaries in the service of Turkey. The $ 1,500 they earn a month is roughly ten times the Syrian salary.
Another Syrian recruited said that BBCthat they had been assured that they only had to watch the border and the oil rigs in Azerbaijan. They had handed over their Syrian uniforms and exchanged them for Azerbaijanis.
But in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Syrians found themselves on the front lines. They were taken to the combat area in troop transports and jeeps and were immediately attacked. Four of them died and three others were injured.
Like the Syrian journalist Housain Akousch reports that several Syrians have already died in the fighting: “Muhammed Shalan, from my town of Alrib, was killed in Azerbaijan. He traveled to Azerbaijan a week ago. The day and place of death are still unknown. Another man from the village of Kafar Halab, west of Aleppo, also died. “
It would not be the first time that Erdogan has deployed mercenaries abroad from those areas of northern Syria that Turkey controls. The fighters recruited by Turkey are also used in Syria in the Libyan civil war.
