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Baku pushes its advantage against Yerevan

2020-10-23T17:25:15.727Z


Azerbaijan has regained control of territories along the Iranian border, on the edge of Nagorno-Karabakh.In Tbilisi This Thursday evening, Baku announced that it now controlled the entire strip located south of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Araxis plain. President Ilham Aliyev triumphantly tweeted: “The state border between Azerbaijan and the Islamic Republic of Iran has been completely secured with the liberation of the town of Agbend” . It is the last village before the border of Armenia, three kilomet


In Tbilisi

This Thursday evening, Baku announced that it now controlled the entire strip located south of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Araxis plain.

President Ilham Aliyev triumphantly tweeted:

“The state border between Azerbaijan and the Islamic Republic of Iran has been completely secured with the liberation of the town of Agbend”

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It is the last village before the border of Armenia, three kilometers away, in the district of Zangilan, one of the seven districts around Nagorno-Karabakh occupied by the Armenian forces since the war of independence of 1992-1994. .

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If the Azerbaijani advance has been rapid in recent days, it is first of all that it has been made on flat ground, in the districts of Fizouli and Djebraïl.

But with its enormous technological superiority, the Azerbaijani army has been attacking the valleys and mountains for two to three days.

The task is more difficult, as shown by the few territorial gains recorded by Baku in the northern and northeastern part of the province.

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Source: lefigaro

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