Azerbaijani Defense Ministry informed foreign military attaches of hostilities in Karabakh
On Monday the Ministry of Defense informed Military attachés of embassies of foreign countries in Baku on the hostilities in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. The Head of International Military Cooperation, Ministry of Defense, Major General Hussein Mahmudov informed the military attaches of the reasons for violations of the ceasefire, the unsuccessful attacks by the Armenians the positions of Azerbaijani Army, methodic firing heavy artillery by Armenian army the Azerbaijani settlements. Mahmudov also informed on the preventing the provocative attacks of the inhabited territories by the Armenian Armed Forces. Fighting intensified on April 2 , and continued the following days, and accompanied by losses on both sides. —0—
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- Politics
- 4 April 2016 14:50
Politics
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