“They waged a rather literate war both strategically and militarily. Operations have been definitely failed, however, this doesn’t mean they were illiterate…I’m sure they have been properly drilled. They aren’t weak, one shouldn’t underestimate Azerbaijan. Our issue is our mobilization and rearrangement in a short period, our mobile movement, to take our positions. The adversary imagined that after shelling we won’t be able to take our positions. Particularly, it was rather easy for them, as they posses UAVs, and it’s easy to observe from the air and wage the war, they did it literally.”
Demonstration of Armenians was held on April 10 in front of the Embassy of Azerbaijan to Brussels. Press service of “Nuard” cultural union told about this, stating, “Armenians in Belgium, with the Armenian flag and lots of posters, which read “We are Artsakh,” “Karabakh is ours,” “Aliyev – a terrorist” and etc, showed their consolidation to the fair fighting of Artsakh, and expressed willingness to leave for the front if necessary.
“I do not plan to initiate such a meeting. In light of the events and taking into consideration the experience accumulated at a heavy price, presently it is more important to resolve the issue of providing the army with modern weaponry with no delay, as soon as possible to adapt combat and tactical training of personnel to the new conditions, ” – he said.
“Wide-scale Karabakh-Azerbaijan clashes on the Line of Contact remind me of 1973 Arab-Israeli scenario, the so-called Yom Kipur War. As, surely, many people aren’t familiar with the scenario, it’s worth introducing its essence in a couple of words. The war unleashed unexpected for Israel, initiators of which were Egypt and Syria. And although, in the end, the Arabian side was defeated, at the initial stage of military operations, due to the recorded serious success, authorities of Egypt, represented by president Anwar Sadat saved his image, and turning it into a document, boldly concluded a Peace Treaty and established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1979 in Camp David, as a result returning Sinai Peninsula. “
The bodies of 18 servicemen of the NKR Defense Army, fallen as a result of the large scale military aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan in April 2-5, were transferred to the NKR side during the exchange. At the presence of the representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the NKR State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons registered that all bodies of the deceased transferred by the Azerbaijani side had signs of torture and mutilation.