An Armenian soldier was killed today in what is the second border shootout incident in two days. News about the occurrence was made public by the spokesperson for the Defence Ministry of Armenia, Artsrun Hovhannisian, on his Facebook page. The statement read: Today, RA AF [Armed Forces of the RepublicContinue Reading
On 27 July, at approximately 11.00 hours an Armenian border guard was critically injured by an Azeri bullet on northern segment of the Armenian-Azeri border. According to sources from Armenia’s Defence ministry, an Armenian border guard received non-life threatening injuries from Azeri fire; according to non-official sources, the injured wasContinue Reading
Last week, sources within Azerbaijan brought to light information regarding the crash of a MiG-29 fighter aircraft in the Caspian Sea during a nocturnal training flight. According to non-official sources, on 24 July at around 22.00 hours the aircraft disappeared from radar screens. Recovery and rescue operations were immediately underwayContinue Reading
Azerbaijan’s Defence minister Gen Zakir Hasanov visited the villages in the southwest of the country last week, just kilometres from the line-of-contact and the Iranian border. Hasanov visited the village’s memorial to servicemen killed during the April clashes of 2016, special attention from Azeri official media was put on theContinue Reading
Yesterday, news got out that an Armenian serviceman was killed on the Armenia-Azeri border. The spokesperson for Armenia’s Ministry of Defence, Artsrun Hovhannisian, commented on the incident through his Facebook account, stating: “With sorrow, I must inform you that yesterday evening, the body of private Hamik Eghiayi Vardanian, born inContinue Reading
In the statement, Azerbaijan’s State Border Service (SBS) mentioned that Armenian troops stationed at at outposts near the village of Zorakan fired on Azeri positions near the the village of Ikikji Sikhli, wounding an Azeri border guard. Azeri officials stated that heavy machine guns were fired on their positions, promptingContinue Reading
Yesterday, Nagorno Karabakh’s Defence minister, Karen Abrahamyan, received Armenia’s Security Council’s head, Armen Grigoryan and his aides. Present during the meeting was Karabakh’s new head of Security Council, Arshavir Ghahramyan, himself a veteran of the first war of the 1990s, and former head of the National Security Service of theContinue Reading
Today, 18 July, the Defence ministry of Azerbaijan published the first numbers on ceasefire violations since 23 June, when it had referred to the situation on the line-of-contact with Nagorno Karabakh and border with Armenia as “relatively calm”. Today’s report stated that the Armenian side had violated the ceasefire onContinue Reading
Yesterday, the units from Azerbaijan’s air force carried out live-fire drills with Su-25 combat aircraft. The drills included both, daytime, as well as nocturnal simulations. Official publications from the Defence ministry stated the fighter unit attacked training targets with different armament types, including bombs and air-surface rockets. The drills wereContinue Reading
Yesterday, a prisoner swap took place between Armenia and Azerbaijan through means of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in what was a rare development possibly aimed strengthening confidence building between the Armenian and Azeri sides. Officials in Baku agreed on returning 45-year-old Zaven Karapetyan, who, according toContinue Reading
The Armenian and Azeri foreign ministers, Zohrab Mnatsakanian and Elmar Mamedyarov respectivally, met the OSCE Minsk Group co-Chairs Stéphane Visconti of France, Andrew Schofer of the United States and Igor Papov of Russia, alongside the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk in Washington today to discuss issues relatedContinue Reading
Armenia’s defence minister Davit Tonoyan visited a military outpost on the Armenia-Nakhichevan border to follow-up on the latest developments, security-operational situation, monitor Azeri troop movements and the latest renovation projects on military outposts conducted by Armenian troops on this segment of the militarised border. Finalising his visit, officials reported thatContinue Reading
Azerbaijan’s defence minister receives large Turkish delegation headed by the country’s deputy defence minister and the heads of numerous Turkish defence firms. The two sides discussed further military coop. including joint weapons production. Interestingly, Turkish general Bahtiyar Ersay appears in a complete Azeri military uniform on Azerbaijan’s side of the
In January 2024, footage emerged of what appear to be Azeri military personnel in the ethnic-Armenian village of Hakaku, Nagorno Karabakh (NK). The village, along with the entire territory of NK were overran by Azerbaijan’s military during it’s offensive in September 2023. One of the first sources of the footage
Mystery flights from Azerbaijan’s Dallar airbase most likely military helicopter training flights, possibly Mi-8 gunships/transport or even Turkish T-129 gunships (recently seen in Azerbaijan during the “Mustafa Kemal Ataturk 2023” military drills. Neither aircraft had registration numbers according to @flightradar24, but did have call signs (SMK701 and SMK702) and ICAO 24-bit
An updated map of Tagavard village, Nagorno Karabakh, with its western half under Azeri military control and eastern under Karabakhi since the 2020 ceasefire, shows around 38 homes demolished. According to Sentinel Hub maps, the Azeri side demolished the homes between 2 and 12 July 2021. Military positions dividing the
At around 16:00 hours on 24 March 2022, reports emerged of Azeri troops overrunning Farukh village in Nagorno Karabakh. This village of 100 inhabitants lies around 2 km from the new 2020 ceasefire line-of-contact that separates Azeri and Karabakhi Armenian forces; it sits just below a major ridgeline considered a
On 12 March 2022, Nagorno Karabakh authorites reported 60mm mortar shells fired at Farukh village by Azeri troops. While no injuries were reported, a house was damaged. Karabakhi authorites provided photos of the damage, as well as that of an exploded mortar shell. Judging by the photos, NK Observer experts
