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Baku rejoiced after his troops managed to reclaim three villages in Nagorno-Karabakh which had previously been controlled by pro-Armenian separatist forces. (Read: Azerbaijan: If you want a ceasefire, Armenia must apologize)
“Today, the Azerbaijan Army has liberated the villages of Shikhali Agali, Sarijali and Mezre in the Jabrayil district and several strategic heights in different directions. The successful operation of our glorious army is underway. Karabakh is Azerbaijan!” Wrote President Azerbajan Ilham Aliyev via Twitter. -his, @president, Tuesday (6/10/2020).
The conflicting claims of the Armenian Defense Ministry say that the troops Nagorno-Karabakh successfully implemented a tactical trick on Monday, which allowed it to inflict significant losses on the Azerbaijan military.
According to the ministry, soldiers in the disputed territory were imitating the tactic of withdrawing from their fighting positions in one of the main areas of the line of contact. When the Azerbaijani soldiers stepped in to occupy land they thought had been abandoned, they fell straight into a trap. (Read: Missile War Goes Wild in the Armenia vs Azerbaijan Conflict)
The Armenians insist the Azerbaijani unit was subjected to intensive artillery fire and lost around 200 soldiers before the rest fled.
“Artsakh’s defensive army used tactical tricks, creating the impression of retreating by the unit Azerbaijan. The enemy tries to occupy the abandoned position and is trapped. The powerful artillery attack destroyed most of the Azerbaijan units. The enemy left 200 KIA (killed in action) and fled, “said Armenian Ministry of Defense spokesman, Shushan Stepanyan, via his Twitter account @ShStepanyan.
Fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh — majority populated territory Armenia which is considered part of Azerbaijan under international law, which declares independence and has remained under Yerevan’s control since a ceasefire in 1994-broke a week ago. (Read: War Continues to Crash, Armenia Misses Mingachevir Azerbaijan)
Armenia and Azerbaijan blame each other for the outbreak of the conflict. The two former Soviet states also accused each other of attacking civilian targets, while regularly reporting enemy losses and military victories of their own.
Yerevan has promised to do everything to defend his ethnicity Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh from attack Azerbaijan. Baku, meanwhile, insisted they were working for peace, which, however, would only be possible if all Armenian troops withdrew from the region.
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