Azeri losses with 14 soldiers killed in the night of 1 August are the highest in a single day since the signing of the cease-fire May 12, 1994 between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

According Ouzeyir Djafarov an Azerbaijani military expert who does not believe in casualty figures published by Baku always minimize his losses, these losses are important due to the fact that the attacker always gives “many more casualties than the defender.” Azerbaijan some opponents now accuse the Defence Minister Zakir Hasanov thus have pushed his troops unprepared to death. Other Azeri media also evoke shots against Armenian Azerbaijani border villages, some of which would already emptied of their inhabitants. Finally, according to other sources Azeri, Azerbaijani fighter planes flying over regularly along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. But the anti-aircraft units of the Armenian armed argue their side no Azeri unit has flown in this airspace Armenian territories day.

Krikor Amirzayan