Azerbaijan may have lost one-two dozen troops during the military operations launched by its armed forces on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border overnight July 16, Head of the Crisis Information Center Artsrun Hovhannisyan said at a briefing today in Ijevan town.
During today’s Cabinet meeting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan commented on the sabotage infiltration attempt carried out by the Azerbaijani special forces at night on the border, which involved more than 100 personnel and aimed at capturing the border position of the Armenian Armed Forces named “Anvakh” located in Tavush province.
Azerbaijan continues targeting the Armenian civilian settlements in the direction of Tavush province.
Armenian defense minister Davit Tonoyan got in touch with Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Defense minister’s spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said on Facebook.
At around 03:40 at night, the units of the Armenian Armed Forces have noticed movement of the Azerbaijani side, Armenian defense ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan said on Facebook.
We call on Azerbaijan and Armenia for an immediate ceasefire and for a peaceful settlement of the conflict, based on the 2009 OSCE Basic Principles and the non-use of force, territorial integrity and equal rights and the self-determination of people.
“The Azerbaijani armed forces, including the border guard service and the 3rd army corps, have used almost all weapons available in their arsenal, except for several means. All caliber firearms, tanks, artillery, up to 122 mm or larger caliber, most of the artillery, mortars, attacking drones were used”, he said.
US bio-tech company Moderna Therapeutics announced the publication of an interim analysis of the open-label Phase 1 study of mRNA-1273, its vaccine candidate against COVID-19, in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The relative calm continues in the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, former spokesperson of the Armenian defense ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan said at a briefing held in the Crisis Information Center in Ijevan town.
Two servicemen of the Armenian Armed Forces – Major Garush Hambardzumyan and Captain Sos Elbakyan, were fatally wounded by the shot fired from the Azerbaijani side at the north-eastern section of the Armenia-Azerbaijan state border, Armenian defense ministry spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said on Facebook.
