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His presidency on Monday Nagorno-Karabakh He announced that his forces were withdrawing from certain areas of the front “for strategic reasons, in order to avoid unnecessary losses and inflict the greatest possible damage on the opponent.”
It is the first time since the beginning of the conflict on September 27 that Nagorno-Karabakh has announced its resignation. Formerly, your Ministry of Defense Azerbaijan had announced that Armenian forces “abandoned their positions” in the Hadrut area
On Tuesday, Nagorno-Karabakh officials said another 21 soldiers from the Armenian-controlled enclave had been killed in clashes with Azerbaijan, bringing the total number of soldiers killed to 244 since the September 27 war broke out.
At noon, the Armenian Defense Ministry announced the launch of a large-scale offensive by the Azerbaijani army in the southern part of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The weapons of Azerbaijan
From the outcome of the battles so far, but also from the visual material circulating on the Internet, it is concluded that Azerbaijan has gained air superiority thanks to the new technology. Turkish and Israeli drones that caters. Possibly, the Azeri air force is supported in other ways by the Turkish armed forces.
Furthermore, Turkey appears to have transferred Syrian mercenaries to support the Azeri forces. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused him Tayyip erdogan, which is the main instigator of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Assad confirmed that the Syrian fighters have been transferred to the battlefield.
Ambassador Reminder
The pressure that Armenia tries to exert on Israel shows the importance of supplying modern weapons from Azerbaijan. Armenia remembers its ambassador from Tel Aviv, just two weeks after the opening of its embassy. The reason cited by Yerevan is that, according to data from the flight tracking site FlightTracker 24, an Azeri Silk Way cargo plane from Ramon Airport, near the Ovda military base in southern Israel, was apparently carrying military equipment.
In 2016, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that his country had already purchased 4.1 billion euros worth of military equipment from Israel. In the last five years, Israel was the first arms supplier to Azerbaijan, surpassing Russia, with sales of more than 631 million euros, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). According to the Israeli press, Elbit Systems recently sold UAVs to Baku.
Galia Lindenstrauss, an analyst at the Tel Aviv Institute for Strategic Studies, commented on the relations between Israel and Azerbaijan:
“This is a strategic relationship: Israel imports a significant part of its oil from Azerbaijan and exports its weapons to Azerbaijan, one of the main customers of the Israeli military industry.”
Amnesty International complaint
Meanwhile, the international Amnesty complained that Azerbaijan launched banned cluster pumps in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh. The district attorney verified the information on the use of these weapons, which was reported in videos posted by Armenian sources over the weekend.
Amnesty International experts “were able to locate the residential areas of Stepanakert where these images were filmed and identify Israeli-made M095 DPICM cluster pumps“which appears to have been dumped by Azeri forces,” the Amnesty International announcement states.
“The use of cluster munitions is prohibited in all cases by international humanitarian law.” The deployment of these weapons, which hit residential areas indiscriminately, is terrifying and unacceptable, “said Dennis Krivoseev, Amnesty International’s director for Europe. East and Central Asia.
(With information from APE)
