YEREVAN. – The military actions unleashed by Azerbaijan were unprecedented not solely since the truce in 1994, but also as compared to the first Karabakh war.
The Minister of Defense of Armenia, Seyran Ohanyan, stated the aforesaid at Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting.
“It was unprecedented in terms of the intensity of the fire [of shots], types of military equipment [used], the presence of terrorists, mercenaries as well as large numbers of casualties,” Ohanyan noted. “And the casualties of the Azerbaijani side were about ten times more than our [i.e. the Armenian side’s] casualties.
“Given the apparent nature of the aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan, they were prepared in advance and not proportionate.”
The Armenian defense minister added that there were evident war crimes, torture, decapitation, and unleashed actions.
Reflecting on the actions taken by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) armed forces, the minister stressed: “As a result of their heroism, Azerbaijan has not achieved anything; even strategically. The control in the north and the south is under the NKR Defense Army, and in that respect, we need to bow, as a nation, before our soldiers.”
