This week, the Minister of Defence of Nagorno Karabakh, Maj Gen Karen Abrahamyan received the head of Armenia’s Security Council, a consultative body serving the executive in Yerevan, a visit to Stepanakert for a formal meeting. The meeting was aimed at discussing the latest developments along the line-of-contact with AzerbaijanContinue Reading
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Nagorno Karabakh met with the head of the armed forces of the latter, Maj Gen Karen Abrahamyan. Maj Gen Abrahamyan received the head of ICRC’s Nagorno Karabakh programme, Pierre Emanuel Ducruet, during which a series of questions related to bilateral co-operationContinue Reading
On 05 February the President of de facto Nagorno Karabakh, Bako Sahakyan, visited troops in the northeastern region of Martakert and held a meeting with local authorities at the village of Talish. He was accompanied by the commander of the Defence Army (the equivalent to a minister of defence inContinue Reading
On 05 February official sources from within Stepanakert made public information regarding the release from prison of Elnur Huseynzade, an Azeri army officer who was captured in an Armenian trench in the northeastern region of Martakert, Nagorno Karabakh in 2017. A possible area of the incident, 2 km fromContinue Reading
Azeri authorites at the Ministry of Defence have released the latest information on ceasefire violations along the line of contact with Nagorno Karabakh and the de facto border with Armenia for the past seven days. Units responsible for monitoring such incidents have reported 167 ceasefire violations by the Armenian military.Continue Reading
A briefing on ceasefire violations in the last week by the military authorities in Stepanakert stated that between 27 January and 02 February, the Azeri Armed Forces violated the ceasefire around 200 times. Special monitoring mechanisms recorded that over 1.300 projectiles of different kinds (from mainly small arms fire) wereContinue Reading
On 30 January combat-readiness snap drills were performed at an undisclosed military installation located in southeastern Nagorno Karabakh. The event was seen off by Defence Army Commander Karen Abrahamyan (the equivalent to a minister of defence), who visited the area reportedly unannounced to check the preparedness of the troops. ParticularContinue Reading
On 24 January 2018, the President of Nagorno Karabakh, Bako Sahanyan participated in the annual Military Council Summit aimed at summing up military developments in the past year. Present during the meeting were high-ranking military officials from the Defence Army (the equivalent of a Ministry of Defence), including the Commander-in-ChiefContinue Reading
On 15 January official reports about the OSCE Minsk Group’s ceasefire monitoring mission were made public. This is the first major monitoring operation since the start of this year, and apparently went through without any incidents according to the Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defence, as well as Nagnorno Karabakh’s Ministry ofContinue Reading
On 12 January 2019, Nagorno Karabakh Foreign Minister Masis Mayilyan met up with his acting counterpart Zohrab Mnatsakanyan in Yerevan in what is the first official visit between the two this year. The two discussed issues related to the OSCE Minsk Group, which included further cooperation and peace-building possibilities promotedContinue Reading
Military officials in Azerbaijan announce over 200 ceasefire violations by Armenian forces in the first week of January 2019. According to official publications, the daily average for ceasefire violations is 29, however the precise way of measuring or categorising the term ceasefire violation is not clarified. Nonetheless, officials in Baku haveContinue Reading
The first week of the year has seen over 125 ceasefire violations along the line of contact by the Azeri military according to military officials in Nagorno Karabakh. Around 1.000 shots were fired from different calibre weapons, which, according to a Nagorno Karabakh Observer analysis were mainly, if not exclusivelyContinue 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
