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14 Azerbaijani killed in mine blasts since truce​

14 Azerbaijanis, including 5 soldiers, killed by mines planted by Armenian forces in Upper Karabakh


Mine explosions in the recently liberated Upper Karabakh have killed 14 Azerbaijanis since a truce agreement was signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia last November.

In a statement, Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General’s Office said 14 Azerbaijanis, including five Azerbaijani soldiers, were killed by mines planted by the Armenian forces.

The statement said 52 soldiers and eight civilians were also injured in the explosions.

The office cautioned civilians from entering the liberated areas until the region is cleared of mines.

 

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Azerbaijan, Armenia exchange prisoners as part of peace deal​


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A Russian peacekeeping commander has said that Azerbaijan and Armenia have exchanged prisoners of war for the second time since the signing of the Karabakh peace deal in November 2020, Interfax Azerbaijan reported on February 9.

"As a result of the work carried out by the Russian peacekeepers under my personal control, a Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft delivered to Baku one [Azerbaijani] who was in captivity and five [Armenian] prisoners returned to Yerevan," Commander of Russian peacekeepers Rustam Muradov said.

The prisoners were exchanged in line with the trilateral peace agreement signed by the Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian leaders on November 10. The peace deal stipulates the exchange of prisoners as well as bodies of soldiers following the 44-day war from September 27 to November 10.

The prisoner swap was facilitated by Russian peacekeepers that have been deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh under the peace agreement.

The first exchange took place on December 14 based on "all for all" principle to mutually return prisoners of war and hostages agreed with Armenia as a result of negotiations with the participation of international organizations and Russian peacekeeping forces. Fourteen Azerbaijani and 44 Armenian prisoners returned to their countries as part of the swap.

A Moscow-brokered ceasefire deal that Baku and Yerevan signed on November 10 brought an end to 44 days of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani army declared a victory against the Armenian troops. The signed agreement obliged Armenia to withdraw its troops from the Azerbaijani lands that it has occupied since the early 1990s.

 

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14 Azerbaijani killed in mine blasts since truce​

14 Azerbaijanis, including 5 soldiers, killed by mines planted by Armenian forces in Upper Karabakh


Mine explosions in the recently liberated Upper Karabakh have killed 14 Azerbaijanis since a truce agreement was signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia last November.

In a statement, Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General’s Office said 14 Azerbaijanis, including five Azerbaijani soldiers, were killed by mines planted by the Armenian forces.

The statement said 52 soldiers and eight civilians were also injured in the explosions.

The office cautioned civilians from entering the liberated areas until the region is cleared of mines.


Azerbaijanis should stop clearing mines and use armenian prisoners of war instead.

Make them walk through the minefields make them pay.
 

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It looks very identical to the one used by armenia and only this type is not painted with standard armenian camouflage (pic from maneuvers in karabakh)
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For info this is the source that says that it is armenian but does not say directly it's in karabakh

It looks like a museum exhibit (probably somewhere in Eastern Europe) to me, also note the grass growing over the right track and the different types of military vehicles located in the background. But I'll keep on the lookout for its location. Thanks!
 

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Hard to believe that Dashnaks will actually allow to build and operate this line on Armenian territory.
 

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Armenia seeks bigger Russian military presence on its territory​


Armenia would welcome the expansion of a Russian military base on its territory and the redeployment of some Russian forces closer to its border with Azerbaijan after a conflict with its neighbour last year, its defence minister said on Monday.
Ethnic Armenian troops in the Nagorno-Karabakh region ceded swathes of territory in and around the enclave to Azerbaijan in a six-week conflict in 2020 that claimed thousands of lives.

Russian peacekeeping troops are deployed in the enclave and, under a formal defence pact with Armenia, Russia has a fully-fledged military base in the city of Gyumri near the Turkish border with an estimated 3,000 troops.

Russia said in November it was deploying almost 2,000 servicemen as part of the peacekeeping mission.

“The question of expanding and bolstering the Russian military base on the territory of Armenia has always been on the agenda,” Armenian Defence Minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan told Russia’s RIA news agency in an interview published on Monday.


“The Armenian side has always been interested in this.”

Harutyunyan did not say whether there were any concrete plans for a potential expansion.

Armenian opposition politicians have called for the creation of a second Russian base in Armenia’s southern Syunik region, wedged between Azerbaijan and the Azeri exclave of Nakhchivan.

Harutyunyan said he saw no need for Russia to formally open a second military base, but said the two countries were considering deploying a military unit from the existing base to eastern Armenia, near the border with Azerbaijan.


Harutyunyan did not disclose the purpose of the potential redeployment nor its exact location.

Russia’s Defence Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Armenia’s opposition, which has called on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign over the outcome of the conflict, planned to stage a fresh street protest on Monday.

 

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Armenia has updated its military death toll to 4005 soldiers,3577 have been identified so far.
 

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