The tension on the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact and the Armenia-Azerbaijan border will escalate ahead of April 24, the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan: Azerbaijan will initiate more diversionary attacks ahead of April 24
STEPANAKERT, MARCH 24, ARTSAKHPRESS: Karabakh War hero, Major General Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan stated the aforesaid on Tuesday.
In his words, the Armenian authorities and army command know very well that Azerbaijan will resort to various provocative actions in the run-up to the genocide centenary.
“There will be more diversionary attacks, and they will open intense fire on the Armenian villages. The Armenian side must do everything to stop the Azerbaijani side,” Ter-Tadevosyan noted. “We must be united; the Armenian military serviceman must realize that the [Karabakh] war freedom fighters stand with him.”
Nonetheless, should the war resume, Ter-Tadevosyan is convinced that Azerbaijan will cease to exist as a state.
As reported earlier, an enhanced team from Azerbaijan’s special military detachment launched an attack, on March 19 at around 8:30am, on the NKR Defense Army positions stationed in a northerly (Gyulistan) direction.
As a result of the skirmish that lasted about two hours, the Armenian military position holders and the relief forces compelled the adversary to flee. Subsequently, they pursued the said Azerbaijani military team and completely crushed them nearby their own military position.
Unfortunately, NKR Defense Army servicemen Hakob Khachatryan (born in 1996), Eduard Hayrapetyan (born in 1995), and Arshak Harutyunyan (born in 1995) died, and four others were wounded while confronting the adversary.
