The engineering and sapper items of the Azerbaijani military proceed to neutralize landmines planted by the Armenian army in territories and provide routes the place the Azerbaijan Armed Forces are positioned.
From September 24-25, a complete of 370 anti-personnel mines of PMN-E sort and 9 anti-tank mines of TM-62 sort had been found and neutralized within the territory of Alagollar, situated within the Kalbajar area, in addition to different areas.
Earlier, greater than 310 Armenian-made landmines have been discovered within the Lachin and Khojaly areas of Azerbaijan. The E-001 M sort units unearthed in Lachin are geared up with distant electrical detonators for distant operation.
The explosives, manufactured in Armenia final 12 months, had been mentioned to be buried by the Armenian saboteurs who infiltrated Azerbaijani borders on September 12 and 13.
The Armenian Armed Forces dedicated large-scale provocations on the state border in mid-September. The intensive shelling of the Azerbaijani positions was accompanied by the deployment of saboteurs who mined the territories and provide routes between the items of the Azerbaijani military within the Lachin, Kalbajar and Dashkasan districts.
Based on the Protection Ministry, countermeasures taken by the Azerbaijani military resulted within the manpower and fight gear losses of the Armenian armed forces concerned in offensive and sabotage operations. The Armed Forces of Azerbaijan additionally destroyed cannons, army vehicles with ammunition, a army unit, and the S-300 air protection methods of the Armenian army because of the retaliatory measures.
Within the meantime, 80 servicemen of the Azerbaijani military had been killed and 282 had been wounded whereas suppressing the offensive of the Armenian army.
Armenia resumed its armed border provocations on September 14 when the nation’s armed forces deployed howitzers and mortars to shell Azerbaijan military items stationed within the instructions of Kalbajar and Lachin. The Azerbaijani troops responded to the offensive with retaliatory measures. Based on Azerbaijani media reviews, the primary objective of the assault on September 14 was to seize Azerbaijani army positions. Nevertheless, they retreated and suffered manpower losses.
The Karabakh (Garabagh) and East Zangazur areas of Azerbaijan had been closely mined for the reason that Nineteen Nineties. Armenia launched a full-blown army assault in opposition to Azerbaijan following the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991. The bloody struggle lasted till a ceasefire was reached in 1994, which resulted in Armenia occupying 20 p.c of Azerbaijan’s internationally-recognized territories. Over 30,000 Azerbaijanis had been killed and a million others had been expelled from these lands in a brutal ethnic cleaning marketing campaign carried out by Armenia.
On September 27, 2020, the decades-old battle between the 2 nations reignited after Armenia’s forces deployed in occupied Azerbaijani lands shelled army positions and civilian settlements of Azerbaijan. Through the counter-attack operations that lasted 44 days, Azerbaijani forces liberated over 300 settlements, together with the cities of Jabrayil, Fuzuli, Zangilan, Gubadli, and Shusha, from the Armenian occupation. The struggle led to a tripartite assertion signed on November 10, 2020, by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia, beneath which Armenia additionally returned the occupied Aghdam, Kalbajar, and Lachin districts to Azerbaijan.
Because the finish of hostilities, the Azerbaijani authorities has been finishing up demining operations within the liberated territories to expedite the return of internally displaced folks to their houses.
Regardless of intensive efforts, demining operations confronted many challenges because of Armenia’s refusal at hand over maps of the landmines’ places. Greater than 240 Azerbaijani residents have been killed or wounded within the mine blasts within the liberated lands post-2020 struggle.
Azerbaijan obtained from Armenia the minefield maps of the as soon as occupied Aghdam, Fuzuli and Zangilan districts, which reportedly establish the coordinates of a complete of 189,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines. Armenia additionally supplied the Azerbaijani aspect with mine maps of different liberated territories of Azerbaijan. In change for maps, Azerbaijan launched dozens of Armenian saboteurs detained in Azerbaijani territory after the ceasefire. Nevertheless, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev mentioned the accuracy of those maps didn’t exceed 25 p.c. Officers in Baku are satisfied that the maps hidden by Armenia may assist neutralize at the least a million landmines planted within the as soon as occupied Azerbaijani lands.
Based on the latest knowledge, in August, 2022, specialists of the Azerbaijan Nationwide Company for Mine Motion (ANAMA) discovered and defused 2,353 anti-personnel, 689 anti-tank mines and 1,161 unexploded ordnances.
Within the meantime, President Ilham Aliyev reiterated the place of Azerbaijan concerning regional peace and the measures aimed toward attaining it after many years of instability because of Armenia’s occupation of Azerbaijani lands for almost thirty years.
“In fact, peace in our area is important for all nations and all peoples. Our agenda is kind of unequivocal. We’ve got repeatedly said that we’re in favor of long-term and sustainable peace, the answer of all issues associated to our neighbors, and the restoration of this area from the tough state of affairs it was in for 30 years,” President Aliyev mentioned in a gathering with the Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin in Baku on Monday.
