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As reported, the plane was shot down around 10 pm 30 minutes. local time. The pilot did not survive.
“The Armenian Su-25 aircraft were shot down by a Turkish F-16 military aircraft, … having arrived from the territory of Azerbaijan,” Shushan Stepanian, spokesman for the Armenian Defense Ministry wrote on Facebook, adding that “the Armenian pilot was heroically killed. “
Shortly after the statement, the Bloomberg news agency reported that Turkish President Fahrettin Altun had denied that his country’s air force had shot down an Armenian military plane.
BREAKING: The Armenian Defense Ministry says a Turkish F-16 from Ganja Air Base shot down an Armenian Su-25 fighter jet this morning, resulting in the pilot’s death. pic.twitter.com/KrggbqQYsL
– Conflict news (@Conflicts) September 29, 2020
Erdogan spokesperson: Turkey supports Baku’s fight for “occupied lands”
Turkey is “fully committed” to helping Azerbaijan regain control of its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, a spokesman for Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.
His statement came ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the escalation of hostilities in an area populated by ethnic Armenians, where nearly 100 victims have been confirmed in the recent intense clashes.
“Turkey will be fully committed to helping Azerbaijan to regain its occupied lands and defend its rights and interests under international law,” Fahrettin Altun wrote on Twitter. She added that Ankara hoped that the UN Security Council would “lay a solid foundation for a solution.”
Yerevan and Baku report losses
Azerbaijani and Armenian forces reported on Tuesday damage suffered by opponents as fighting continues on the third day in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
For decades, former Soviet republics fighting for territory have ignored calls from world leaders for an immediate end to Sunday’s new fighting.
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday asked for urgent consent to escalation of hostilities in an area populated by ethnic Armenians where nearly 100 casualties have been confirmed in recent intense clashes.
Representatives from both sides said Tuesday that clashes were continuing despite international calls for a ceasefire.
Armenian defense officials said that separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh had repulsed attacks by Azerbaijani forces along the front line and that “the enemy had suffered heavy casualties.”
Yerevan’s Defense Ministry also reported that Azerbaijani soldiers have suffered heavy casualties since the start of the fighting: about 50 drones were shot down, four helicopters were damaged and 80 tanks were damaged.
Defense officials in Baku, for their part, rejected claims by separatist militants that Armenian-backed forces had regained control of lost territory in Karabakh on Sunday.
According to them, the “fierce fighting” continued on Tuesday morning. Azerbaijani troops repulsed the Armenian counterattack, destroyed the “Armenian motorized column and artillery unit” and then the entire motorized infantry regiment, Azerbaijani defense officials said.
Azerbaijani forces “continued the attack on the city of Fizuli, destroying four enemy tanks, armored and killing 10 soldiers,” Baku officials said.
“The enemy … asked for help to evacuate the dead and wounded soldiers,” authorities said.
Armenian human rights ombudsman Arman Tatoyan confirmed Tuesday that two more civilians were killed in the clashes. At the time, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said the number of civilians killed on the Azerbaijani side had risen to 10 on Tuesday.
In all, at least 98 people have already died in the clashes, including 84 separatist fighters and 14 civilians.
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