Day: February 13, 2024
Weapons and ammunition were found in Khankandi and Gubadli, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting Azernews, citing Azerbaijan’s Interior Ministry.
As a result of operative measures taken by police officers, 12 automatic rifles of different brands, 10 rifles of different brands, 3 pistols, 10 grenades, 2 fuses, 59 ammunition magazines, 1,381 cartridges of different caliber and other ammunition were found and seized in the territory of Khankendi city on February 12.
Weapons and ammunition were also found in the Gubadli district.
According to the press service of the Interior Ministry, 44 hand grenades, a grenade launcher, cartridges of various calibres, and other ammunition were found in the territory of the village of Gayali in Gubadli district.
An investigation is underway.
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Azerbaijan announced a “revenge operation” in response to cross-border fire by Armenia on Monday, while Armenia reported its two soldiers were killed in the operation. Azerbaijan earlier announced that a serviceman was injured by Armenian fire on Monday, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting Daily Sabah.
“As a result of the operation, the combat post of the Armenian Armed Forces near the Nerkin-And settlement of Gafan district, where our soldiers were fired upon yesterday (Monday), was completely destroyed, and the combat positions were silenced,” a statement by Azerbaijan’s State Border Service said Tuesday.
There are reports of serious casualties among the personnel of the destroyed combat post, the statement noted, saying: “Every provocation of the Armenian side aimed at aggravating the operational conditions at the Azerbaijan-Armenia conditional state border will be answered with more serious and decisive measures from now on.”
“The military and political leadership of Armenia is fully responsible for the incident,” it added.
Earlier, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry also said its military positions in the country’s northwestern Tovuz district were fired on by Armenia late Monday.
Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent regions. Azerbaijan liberated most of the region during the war in the fall of 2020, which ended with a Russian-brokered peace agreement, opening the door to normalization. The Azerbaijani army initiated a counterterrorism operation in Karabakh last September to establish constitutional order after which illegal separatist forces in the region surrendered.
Armenia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement posted on the Telegram messaging app on Tuesday that two of its soldiers had been killed and several more wounded at a combat post near the southern Armenian village of Nerkin Hand.
Although fatal exchanges of fire between Armenia and Azerbaijan have been common for decades, the border had become more peaceful since the start of peace talks, with little serious fighting since the collapse of Karabakh in September 2023. The peace talks have stagnated in recent months, with both sides accusing the other of sabotaging the diplomatic process.
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The Baku Book Center has hosted a meeting with popular Russian art historian and former Director General of the Russian State Tretyakov Gallery Zelfira Tregulova, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting AzerTac.
Vice President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva and Head of the Baku Media Center Arzu Aliyeva participated in the event.
During the meeting, Zelfira Tregulova presented her book titled “Masterpieces of the Tretyakov Gallery. A Personal view”.
The book features iconic paintings by Russian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by Ilya Repin, Mikhail Vrubel, Kazimir Malevich, and others.
Zelfira Tregulova commended the presentation of her book, which was held for the first time outside Russia, specifically in Azerbaijan, in Baku.
She expressed her gratitude to Leyla Aliyeva and the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.
Following the meeting, the author engaged in a Q&A session with participants.
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On February 13, Azerbaijani State Border Service (SBS) units conducted “Revenge,” an operation destroying a combat post near the Nerkin-And settlement in the Gafan district. This action was in response to the provocation by the Armenian Armed Forces the previous day, said the press center of SBS, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting Trend.
“Significant personnel losses were reported at the destroyed combat post,” SBS said.
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Reports of the area near Nerkin Hand village custodied by Russian peacekeepers as opposed to the EU monitoring mission.
— Nagorno Karabakh Observer (@NKobserver) February 13, 2024