De facto Nagorno Karabakh’s (NK) Defence Ministry released an official summary of the military situation of 2019, which stressed the past years major events and developments, as well as underlined the lack of progress with the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group due to disagreements amongst the parties in theContinue Reading
The end of November saw a spike in ceasefire violation reports from the Nagorno Karabakh Defence authorities and along with those two injured and two reportedly killed on the line-of-contact (LoC) that separates Nagorno Karabakh from Azerbaijan. The two injured and one killed were from the Armenian side, while oneContinue Reading
There has been a recent spike in ceasefire violation reports on the line-of-contact between Azerbaijan and de facto Nagorno Karabakh, and the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, according to reports from defence officials from the three sides. Defence officials in Nagorno Karabakh noted a significant drop in average daily projectilesContinue 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
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
A rare statement came out of Azerbaijan’s Defence Ministry today. Reportedly for the first time since records are kept online Azeri officials stated that on 23 June, the situation on the line-of-contact was “relatively calm” with “a sporadic few shots heard along the line-of-contact”, something that follows nine days ofContinue Reading
On 21 June, Azeri defence authorities revealed in a statement that Armenian forces violated the ceasefire along the line-of-contact 21 times using grenade launchers. No details were provided on the precise whereabouts of where the grenades were launched. Armenian defence authorities in Nagorno Karabakh in a special statement expressed thatContinue Reading
Yesterday, 12 June, the Azeri Defence ministry reported on a near hit of one of its drones by Armenian anti-air defence missile over south eastern Nagorno Karabakh. The report stated that the Armenian side fired on an Azeri drone during a planned training flight with two OSA anti-air missiles. GeospatialContinue Reading
Today, for the first time on over half a year, Azeri military officials reported a ceasefire violation by the Armenian side with projectiles other than small arms fire. A report from the country’s Defence ministry stated that eight 60 mm mortar shells were fired on military positions, in addition toContinue Reading
Official information on reported ceasefire violations was published today by the Nagorno Karabakh (officially known as Artsakh) Defence Ministry. This last week has seen a rise in reported ceasefire violations by Azerbaijan, as reported by the Armenian side, with 250 reported incidents amounting to around 2.500 projectiles being fired onContinue Reading
According to official notifications from the Azeri and Nagorno Karabakh Defence Ministries, as well as each’s respective Foreign Ministry, the OSCE Minsk Group has conducted 104 ceasefire monitoring missions at military outposts along the line-of-contact that separates Nagorno Karabakh (officially called the Republic of Artsakh) and Azerbaijan, and along theContinue Reading
OSCE representatives conducted a ceasefire monitoring mission today (04 June) at military positions on the south-central segment of the line-of-contact near the city of Martuni. From Armenian side were representatives Mihail Olaru (Moldova) and Martin Schuster (Germany), while from the Azeri side of the line-of-contact were Simon Tiller (United Kingdom),Continue Reading
Footage and satellite imagery from the past several months highlight demolitions of ethnic-Armenian churches, homes, residential buildings and even a village in Nagorno Karabakh. The demolitions were carried out by Azerbaijan’s government, now fully in control of the territory. The entire Armenian population of 120,000 fled to Armenia proper
Mayors of the three major cities of former Nagorno Karabakh, have been arrested by Armenian authorities coinciding with a growing opposition movement with whom they may have been associated with. The mayor of Karabakhi capital Stepanakert, and those of Askeran and Martakert cities have been detained by Armenian authorities. Stepanakert
On 24 May, 2024, Armenia’s Defence Ministry reported that the country’s prime minister nominated five colonels to be promoted to the rank of major general. This is one of the highest numbers of officers promoted to such ranks in one act in recent years. These career advancements possibly indicate loyalty,
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
Since approximately 2020, mystery aircraft have been spotted flying around Azerbaijan’s northwestern Dallar airbase, 30 km from Armenia’s border. They were spotted a month prior to the 2020 Nagorno Karabakh war and had been seen numerous times since. The aircraft had not been able to be explicitly identified through open
