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Armenian Defense Minister vows harshest ever response to Azerbaijani attack on Artsakh

armenpress.am09/27th/2020, 9:24
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Armenian Defense Minister vows harshest ever response to Azerbaijani attack on Artsakh

Armenian Minister of Defense Davit Tonoyan has issued a statement saying the Artsakh military is neutralizing the Azerbaijani attempts to advance with decisive countermeasures and inflicting heavy losses.

Tonoyan said the Armenian Armed Forces – being the guarantors of security of Artsakh – are ready to provide any assistance to ensure the Artsakhi population’s security.

“Today early in the morning, by grossly violating international humanitarian law norms and the logic of the peaceful negotiations process for the conflict resolution, the Azerbaijani armed forces launched an offensive using rocket-artillery and aviation at the entire length of the Artsakh-Azerbaijani line of contact, targeting both Defense Army combat positions and peaceful settlements of Artsakh. Therefore, the entire responsibility of the combat operations falls on Azerbaijan’s military-political leadership. It is already obvious that by not learning lessons from their own inglorious defeats the Azerbaijani authorities have once again overestimated their abilities, for which I am certain they will be strongly punished,” Tonoyan said.

Tonoyan said this adventurism will have severe consequences for Azerbaijan ...

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