Source: Gurbanov, Ilgar, “Azerbaijan’s Military Exercises Send Defiant Message to Armenia”, The Jamestown Foundation, Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 16 Issue: 99, 11 July 2019 *all opinions expressed are those of the original author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or stance of Nagorno Karabakh Observer. The armed forcesContinue 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
Source: “Bundestag MP on Karabakh resolution and Armenian NPP shutdown”, Vestnik Kavkaza, 16 Jul 2019 *all opinions expressed are those of the original author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or stance of Nagorno Karabakh Observer. Beate Walter-Rosenheimer, a German member of the parliament from the GreenContinue 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
A motorised infantry brigade from the Nagorno Karabakh military conducted combat simulations today at the eastern Tigranakert military training ground. The event was officially announced as a test of military capacities for the first half of the year. The motorised infantry brigade conducted live-fire drills, which involved a general mobilisation,Continue Reading
Today, Bako Sahakyan, president of the de facto Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, promoted the military’s chief of staff, colonel Jalal Harutyunyan to major general. Maj Gen Harutyunyan rose through the ranks of the military, having participated in the 1990s Karabakh conflict at an early age. Subsequently he was the commanderContinue Reading
The latest ceasefire violation reports have seen significant changes. For two weeks now, since 23 July, Azeri military authorities no longer report numbers, stating in reports that the line-of-contact is relatively calm. A translation of the exact statement released by Azerbaijan’s Defence ministry since 23 June is the following: ThroughoutContinue Reading
New conscripts taken into service during the summer military draft were visited by high-level military officials, including Nagorno Karabakh’s Defence minister, Maj Gen Karen Abrahamyan, veterans of the war in the 1990s and local NGO representatives. During the event, Maj Gen Abrahamyan spoke with the new conscripts and expressed thatContinue Reading
Nagorno Karabakh’s Defence minister Maj Gen Karen Abrahamyan received his Armenian counterpart Lt Gen Artak Davtyan during an official visit to the ministry, and a series of military installations. During the visit, the two military heads assessed and familiarised themselves with ongoing renovation works at military outposts to strengthen positionsContinue Reading
De facto Nagorno Karabakh’s Defence Ministry received a new deputy minister today. Colonel Stepan Gevoryan was assigned to the position through a decree by president Bako Sahakyan. Col Gevorgyan will be particularly in charge of morale-boosting affairs within the ranks of the unrecognised state’s armed forces. Col Gevorgyan previously theContinue 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
