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The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry announced at dawn on Tuesday that army units have entered the Lachin region, which is the third and last of the territories surrendered by Armenia after the withdrawal of its forces from it. In compliance with the ceasefire agreement in the Nagorno Karabakh region and its surroundings, which was signed on November 9 last under the auspices of Russia.
And the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry published photos of Azerbaijani military vehicles entering the border region with Armenia for the first time in 28 years.
The Lachin region, like the Aghdam region, which was surrendered on November 20, and Kalbjar, which was surrendered on November 25, has formed a buffer zone surrounding the Karabakh region since the end of the first war. between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 1994.
Azerbaijani forces took control of 4 other regions during 6 weeks of fierce battles that began in late September last and resulted in thousands of deaths.
Approximately two thousand Russian soldiers were deployed along the front line to guarantee a ceasefire and to maintain a passage linking Armenia with Karabakh.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry also announced the arrival of teams of experts from the Turkish army to assist and train Azerbaijani teams in demining the areas that had been recaptured from Armenia since last September 27.
The Azerbaijani army was able to liberate 5 cities, 4 towns and 286 villages, before Armenia conceded defeat.
After fierce battles, which lasted around 4 weeks; On November 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Azerbaijan and Armenia had reached a ceasefire agreement, which provides for Azerbaijan to regain control of its occupied territories – Aghdam, Kalbgar and Lachin – before the end of this year. .
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