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On September 29, during the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, an Su-25 attack plane of the Armenian Air Force was shot down. The press secretary of the Armenian Defense Ministry, Shushan Stepanyan, reported on this.
A Su-25 aircraft of the Armenian Air Force was shot down by a Turkish F-16 fighter. The press secretary of the Armenian Ministry of Defense, Shushan Stepanyan, announced this on September 29 on her Facebook page.
According to her, the Turkish fighter took off from the airfield in the Azerbaijani city of Ganja at 10:30.
“During this period, our own aviation [Армении] performed the combat support tasks of the air defense units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia. The Turkish Air Force F-16 multifunctional fighter, while conducting a combat mission during anti-aircraft battles in Armenian airspace, struck the Air Force Su-25 RA attack aircraft. The pilot, sadly, died heroically, “he wrote.
In 1991 Nagorno-Karabakh with the support of Armenia declared its independence from Azerbaijan. This led to hostilities that lasted until 1994. The armed conflict ended with the signing of the Bishkek Protocol on Armistice and Ceasefire, but from time to time armed clashes broke out between the parties. During the conflict, more than 30 thousand people died in the region.
Azerbaijan considers Nagorno-Karabakh as a territory occupied by Armenia.
The next large-scale military actions began in Nagorno-Karabakh on September 27. The Armenian Foreign Ministry reported on the bombing of peaceful settlements, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry accused Armenia of “large-scale provocation” and bombardment of the Azerbaijani army positions. Azerbaijan announced the civilians killed and wounded as a result of the shelling from Armenia.
On September 28, Turkish President Recep Erdogan said that Armenia must go the Nagorno-Karabakh territory occupied by him. is he He stressed that his country “will continue to support Azerbaijan” in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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