Intense battles are taking place along all Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces. Karabakh forces, causing considerable manpower and military equipment losses, took the initiative in their hands in north-eastern and south-eastern directions. During the military actions the adversary lost 3 tanks in north-eastern direction, and 2 tanks in south-eastern direction.
“I condition this by his close ties with Azerbaijani authorities. Everybody knows it; the Armenian delegation and others have repeatedly mentioned this while he was being elected a president, we also touched upon it a lot. He discredits the Council of Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and he doesn’t act out of values upon which the Council of Europe is anchored.”
“Another good news, during the morning fighting Armenian subdivisions have destroyed 3 new tanks,” Artsrun Hovhannisyan, RA MOD Press Speaker, wrote on his Facebook page.
The Azerbaijani side continued bombarding civilian settlements and Defense Army positions in the line of contact on the early morning of April 4. The Press Service of the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Ministry released a statement.
“Finally, good news. Armenian units have made major advancements in some sections of the frontline, liberating new positions and frontiers. Long live Armenian soldiers”, Hovhannisyan wrote.
Photos taken by photographer of Photolure agency Hakop Poghosyan show cruel scenes of Talish village of Artsakh, which was under the control of Azerbaijani army for a single day and destroyed the civilian population.
According to official Baku, 21 is equal to 12. To conceal its own losses, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry turns out to be applying the simple trick of swapping the figures and representing 21 casualties it suffered in only one battle as 12.
Clashes on the line of contact of Karabakh-Azerbaijan opposing armies continue. Another tank has been destroyed by the Defence army during the military operations in the north-eastern direction, a MM-21 (Grad) multiple rocket launcher has been destroyed in the northern direction, 1 unit engineering techniques, 1 unmanned aerial vehicle has been destroyed in Martakert direction. Further information on developments on the frontline will be provided in the upcoming press releases.”
“First, as just noted, renewed armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia causes a new headache for Turkish President Erdogan, which Putin has been keen to do since Turkey shot down a Russian military aircraft on November 24 that was violating Turkish airspace. Second, the violence erupted just one day after Presidents Aliyev and Sargsyan met separately with U.S. Vice President Biden in a meeting many observers hoped would reenergize the Minsk Group. Instead, the worst clashes since the war in the early 1990’s occur simultaneously with this promising meeting in the White House on the margins of a larger gathering hosted by President Obama, whose invitation Russian President Putin refused to accept. “
The Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army is ready to discuss the cease-fire proposal in the context of the recovery of the initial positions.
