Meeting of the Board of Trustees of “Tashir” Charity Foundation was held recently, during which decision was made to allocate USD 500.000 to Artsakh, as well as USD 2000 for each family of soldier or serviceman killed for the defense of Artsakh borders in early April of 2016.
“The adversary performed attacking operations in that direction, by subversive groups, which have been blockaded until the dawn. Type of the helicopter was MI-8, which, probably, was to implement either evacuation of the personnel in blockade or to provide possible support, i.e. descending certain forces there. The helicopter has been destroyed in the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, passing the positions by about 500 meters. After the downing, the helicopter performed a possible flight, for about 5 km and performed emergency landing in their territory.”
Notes have been taken in the notebook of one of the pilots, made on March 31, “Black box is yellow. It’s written: the pilot should fly the helicopter from Kala airport of Baku to military airbase of Kurdistan. It’s written that he performed 2 flights: 6 and 11 minutes each, totally 148 liters of kerosene have been consumed.
What occurred throughout recent few days, was a real lesson to us. Starting from ordinary worker, to the highest state circle. We understood, that fight against corruption, rule of law, human rights protection, democracy and other values, are not just simple, nice words. Our fate and that of our country depend on them. Yes, it did cost us dear, but we realized that we need to have a powerful economy to have a powerful army, and for a powerful economy, we need to have a normal country and trust towards the state.
Political aspects of the causes of the start of the April war will be discussed for a long time: many geopolitical, economic and other reasons will be propounded, but the fact is that Azerbaijan has calculated several things. Over the past years Azerbaijan has purchased a large number of new types of weapons and had confidence that this modern weaponry would provide an inevitable victory. At the same time they knew that the Armenian side started major acquisitions, the huge part of which is still underway. If we add the fact that the spending of the Azerbaijani armed forces have been drastically reduced, then it can be assumed that this was the right time for them to try make a “blitzkrieg”.
“The Azerbaijani army simultaneously operated 50 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Through airborne prospecting they attempted to damage the reserve and destroy control system. Of course, they failed. We implemented command without failures and problems. Through connection we provided uninterrupted command, which is the most crucial in this situation. In the southeastern direction the adversary took an object and failed to exercise its combat mission.”
A criminal case was initiated in General Military Investigative Department on violation of the norms of international humanitarian law provided by international treaties during armed conflicts according to the Part 6 of the Article 390 of Republic of Armenia Criminal Code.
“I see you are interested in peaceful world, I’m speaking from the standpoint of technological initiatives, on account of the fact that industrial initiatives in this regard are of crucial importance as well. Besides, if all people together are for the development of technological initiatives in the world, we just need to walk to the peaceful future. Higher education means best university, and the latter means high civilization and policy. And this leads to adoption of sound domestic and foreign policy posture. Although I’m a scientist, I can speak of war, accordingly, let me speak of this by adopting a scientist’s disposition: in Israel we have 8 million population, but in our free market we have 5000 start-up projects, in case, when Japan has 120 million population and its projects comprise the same amount. I leave conclusions to you…”
Protest March to the Embassy of Russia (Live)
Azerbaijan returned the bodies of 18 Armenian servicemen killed in combat last week along the frontline with its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region.
