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| Azerbaijan launched a missile and aerial attack against Artsakh and Stepanakert Armenia |
| 2020-09-27 |
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Armenia: Azerbaijan attacked settlements in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh [JPost] Armenia said early on Sunday that neighboring Azerbaijan had attacked civilian settlements in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and urged the population in the disputed region to seek refuge in shelters. Armenia's Defense Ministry said that its troops had downed two Azerbaijani helicopters and three drones in response to an attack it said began at 0410 GMT against civilian settlements, including the regional capital of Stepanakert. "Our response will be proportionate, and the military-political leadership of Azerbaijan bears full responsibility for the situation," the Armenian Defense Ministry said in a statement. Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry, in turn, said it had launched a military operation along the "contact line," a heavily-mined no-man's-land that separates the Armenian-backed forces from Azeri troops in the region, Russian news agencies reported. The ministry said that an Azerbaijani helicopter had been downed but that its crew had survived. The two former Soviet countries have long been in conflict over Azerbaijan's breakaway, mainly ethnic-Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh, and border clashes have intensified in recent months. Armenia's Foreign Ministry condemned what it called the "aggression of the military-political leadership of Azerbaijan" and said the Armenian side would deliver an appropriate military and political response. Ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh declared independence during a conflict that broke out as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Though a ceasefire was agreed in 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia frequently accuse each other of attacks around Nagorno-Karabakh and along the separate Azeri-Armenian frontier |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #11 So has the attack withdrawn, or will it continue in the morning? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-09-27 21:57 |
| #10 real or not. The helicopter wreckage video in #7 isn't real. It's an old wreck that has been picked apart. Neither Armenia or Azerbaijan are paragons of openness. |
| Posted by: Uloter Ebbomolet9368 2020-09-27 21:44 |
| #9 That calls for a drink...real or not. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-09-27 21:37 |
| #8 nice |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-09-27 20:53 |
| #7 Attackers creamed |
| Posted by: 3dc 2020-09-27 19:31 |
| #6 In the county of Van, in a souk, Once was bought by a bashi-bazouk A used double reed Of the infidel creed, Viz., an old Hayastani duduk. |
| Posted by: Tiny Stalin9202 2020-09-27 16:42 |
| #5 Armenia's Christian. |
| Posted by: Fred 2020-09-27 14:33 |
| #4 Soviets sensitizing their muslim satellite border colonies against incursion from Iran or Turkey? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-09-27 13:18 |
| #3 Here’s hoping this is just a little eruption rather than the start of something idiotically serious. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-09-27 10:43 |
| #2 Turkey offers full support to Azeris and Putin has Russian Army in Armenia since the USSR fell |
| Posted by: 3dc 2020-09-27 08:46 |
| #1 REEEE |
| Posted by: newc 2020-09-27 03:09 |