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Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Azerbaijani troops accidentally shot down a Russian military helicopter near the border with Armenia, apologizing to Moscow for the incident and its willingness to pay compensation, Reuters reported, according to Agerpres.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that a military helicopter of its forces, type MI-24, was shot down over Armenia, not far from the border with Azerbaijan, two crew members were killed and another was evacuated with injuries. medium severity.
The plane was hit around 6.30 pm (14.30 GMT) while accompanying a column of vehicles from a Russian military base in Armenia.
The helicopter flew over the vicinity of the Armenian village of Erash, adjacent to Nahicevan, an autonomous territory of Azerbaijan separated from the rest of Azerbaijan by the territory of Armenia.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia has announced that it has moved aid to the site.
Armenian separatists and Azerbaijani forces have been fighting since late September for control of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Azerbaijani separatist region backed by Armenia.
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