For 13 days of victorious battles in Karabakh significant territories were liberated, the enemy was defeated

Baku/10.10.20/Turan: On October 9, 2020 in Moscow, the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, with the mediation of the Russian Foreign Minister, signed a ceasefire agreement, the first truce since September 27, 2020, when the Azerbaijani army was forced to respond to Armenian aggression and counterattack the enemy army on all fronts in Karabakh. The parties decided to cease-fire at 12 noon on October 10 in order to take out the bodies of those killed, exchange prisoners and begin peaceful substantive negotiations. However, as the events of October 10 showed, the ceasefire did not happen. Nevertheless, the period from September 27 to October 10, 2020 can be considered the first stage of the Karabakh war of this year.

For 13 days of fierce battles, the Armenian army did not advance a significant distance for the combat situation, although it attacked the positions of Azerbaijan many times. Representatives of the Armenian Defense Ministry gave their people false information about the offensive of their army, but none of such messages indicated the location of a successful Armenian operation.

At the same time, the Azerbaijani army liberated 1 city (Jabrail), 2 villages (Horadiz, Hadrut) and 22 villages from the Armenian occupation. All the liberated settlements were destroyed by the occupier to the ground. There is not a single whole house on this territory.

The Azerbaijani army took control of the strategically important Murov height on the Murovdag ridge, which allows shelling the occupied territories in the Kalbajar region.

Because of the shelling by the Azerbaijani army of one of the two highways connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, the enemy was forced to use one, the old road through Lachin, on which a road bridge was blown up by the Azerbaijani army during the fighting. On the same day, the Armenians repaired the bridge.

During the period from September 27 to October 9, 2020, the Azerbaijani army easily passed the enemy's defensive zone, built over 30 years of occupation of Karabakh. The strip was a system of stone-fortified defense points with field sleeping places for Armenian military personnel. Along the outer perimeter of the front, electronic means of monitoring the movements of the Azerbaijani army were installed, which are light towers with video cameras mounted at a height, transmitting images to the central headquarters of the Armenian army online. The power supply of the posts and observation equipment was carried out by means of solar panels.

Tanks, artillery batteries, Grad, Smerch and other rocket launchers were dug into the ground throughout the depth of the defense; anti-aircraft air defense systems and radio-technical means of control, reconnaissance and UAV interception were installed at the heights. This entire complex defense system was destroyed in 13 days of hostilities.

During the fighting, the Azerbaijani army used modern tactics of hostilities unknown to the enemy, which were successfully used by the Turkish army during the Turkish war against local and foreign terrorists. The tactics are as follows. First, the UAV destroys enemy ground air defense systems, artillery and missile weapons of the enemy. In the course of these actions, a pair of UAVs is used, of which one carries out visual control of the terrain, the second, the shock one, is an air projectile controlled by the ground operator.

On rare occasions, the Azerbaijani army used front-line aviation.

After the destruction of the enemy's anti-aircraft and missile-artillery weapons and the receipt of intelligence data on the fulfillment of this task, the second stage begins - the introduction of ground rifle formations into battle, supported by artillery, mortars, tanks and light armored vehicles (BMP, BDRM, etc.). The battles are being fought for the capture of heights, not settlements. The army bypasses the villages and towns of the enemy, leaving them in the rear. In the future, the settlements, after receiving intelligence about the absence of enemy manpower there, are cleared by ground forces.

According to Anar Huseynov, a major of the Azerbaijani army in reserve, the army fulfilled the task assigned to it as excellent. During the hostilities, attacking actions of the Azerbaijani army were carried out in the north - the Agdere-Murovdag direction, and in the south of Karabakh - the Fizuli-Jabrayil direction. On the very first day of the operation, a number of positions were liberated in Murovdag, close to the Kalbajar region of Karabakh. In the battles in the north of the occupied zone, the Azerbaijani army liberated the large strategic village of Madagiz, from which the road to Kalbajar departs. On the day of the liberation, this village was renamed Sugovushan. Also of great importance is the liberation of the Talish village, which is the closest distance from the Baku-Ganja highway and cuts two parts of Azerbaijan. Also in the north, the army entered the Madagiz reservoir. Thanks to this, for the first time in 30, agricultural lands located on the plain in the Ter-Ter region received full water from the Ter-Ter River.

The second most populous Karabakh city of Agdere (Mardakert) with an Armenian population was in a semi-surronded. Currently, this city is empty and its population has left.

In the south of Karabakh, the Azerbaijani army liberated the border zone adjacent to Iran to the territory of the occupied Gubadly region of Azerbaijan. Attacking to the north, up the mountains from the Araz River, the army liberated the important village of Hadrut, and in the west of this front, the city of Jabrail was completely liberated.

If it were not for the ceasefire concluded on October 9, the Azerbaijani army with such a rate of successful attacks could have reached Khankendi, the capital of occupied Karabakh, in 4-7 days of fighting. The distance from the place of deployment of the Azerbaijani army to Khankendi is 40-50 km, said military expert Anar Huseynov. The distance covered by our army from the former defensive lines in a number of places reaches 40 km. In his speech to Azerbaijani television viewers on October 9, President of Azerbaijan I. Aliyev listed the destroyed and taken whole military-technical means of Armenians.

The list of military equipment of Armenia, destroyed and taken as a war trophy by the Azerbaijani army. Losses of Armenia: destroyed 16 command posts, 196 tons12 tanks, 38 BM-21, 1 "Hurricane", 10 self-propelled artillery mounts, including 8 "Akats" and 2 "Gvozdika", 36 infantry fighting vehicles, 24 artillery batteries, 2 RM or air defense means, launchers of 2 S-300 complexes, 25 OSA anti-aircraft missile systems, 2 KUB anti-aircraft missile systems, 4 Repelend radio jammers, 136 guns, 56 mortars, 1 TOS-1A flamethrower, 2 radar stations, 1 Kolchuga antenna.

Military equipment taken as a trophy: 18 tanks, 4 cannons, 22 infantry fighting vehicles, 12 mortars, 4 UAZ vehicles, 1 excavator, 27 Igla complexes, 1 ZIL vehicle, 9 GAZ vehicles. At the same time, the enemy did not seize a single unit of military equipment belonging to the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, I. Aliyev noted.

The losses in the manpower of the Azerbaijani army were not disclosed. During the fighting, 31 civilians were killed and about 150 people were wounded.

According to experts, the Armenian army is demoralized during these battles, the front in the south of Karabakh has collapsed, and the logistic system for providing ammunition, weapons and food does not work. In Yerevan, cases of mass desertion and refusal to carry out orders in the Armenian army are recognized, - said military expert Shair Ramaldanov.

In an article in Novaya Gazeta, Russian journalist Ilya Azarov reported on panic in the Armenian army caused by the dispatch of youths untrained in military operations to the front, lack of ammunition, military equipment and ammunition. It got to the point that the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, in his address to the people, asked those discharged to the reserve to hand over used military uniforms to the army. For this article, which the author refused to rewrite, Yerevan deprived Azarov of accreditation in Karabakh.

On October 10, 2020, despite the agreement reached in Moscow, the Armenian army did not stop hostilities, and continued to fire at peaceful Azerbaijani cities and villages. The Azerbaijani army responds to the enemy. Therefore, there is reason to believe that the attacking actions of the Azerbaijani army will continue after some time. —0—