The Azerbaijani army has launched Operation Retribution. Preparation for a new Karabakh war is over (3 videos)
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have been transferring forces to the Lachin and Zanzegur corridors since April. The Russian peacekeeping contingent tried to prevent the resumption of the Karabakh war to the last. The active phase was supposed to begin, according to intelligence sources, on August 5.
The leadership of the peacekeeping contingent has known about this since March and has been preparing for it. The only question remains whether Russian peacekeepers or a limited contingent of the Russian Armed Forces will be used or not.
The formal reason was the death of an Azerbaijani serviceman as a result of shelling. I got an insider from a subscriber from Azerbaijan - contract workers are being massively summoned from vacations in the country. Apparently, Azerbaijan has been given the command to unfreeze the conflict in order to create additional points of tension for Russia against the background of its own, or Azerbaijan itself has decided to continue the war against the Armenians, hoping that Russia occupied by Ukraine will not come to the aid of the Armenians.
So far, the Azerbaijani army has carried out the operation "Retaliation", the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reports. "The Kyrkhyz height was taken under control, as well as Sarbaba and a number of other important dominant heights along the Karabakh ridge of the Lesser Caucasus. The divisions are carrying out engineering work to create new positions and lay supply routes. As part of the operation, several combat positions of Armenian armed formations were destroyed, an air strike was carried out on a military unit in the Upper Oratag settlement of the former Aghdam district. As a result, the manpower of the Armenian armed formations was destroyed and wounded, as well as several D-30 howitzers, military vehicles and a large amount of ammunition were destroyed," the ministry said.
The birds sang that in Artsakh, during the backstage negotiations, the Azerbaijanis agreed to implement the "Kosovo scenario": to wait until September with the closure of the Lachin corridor.
Chronicle of events today August 3:
Since 6 a.m., the Azerbaijani Air Force has been conducting reconnaissance using Turkish Bayraktar TB2 UAVs to the west and east of the Lachin corridor. Reinforcements are being transferred from Ganja by army aviation helicopters.
At 10 a.m., the first strike was launched from the Bayraktar TB2 UAV at the Armenian post at Sarydag height. Two hours later, another blow was struck and a battle broke out on the contact line to the west of the village of Yehtsaoh. Artillery strikes are being carried out on the positions of the Defense Army. At least seven Armenian servicemen were injured.
There are battles at Martakert in the north-eastern sector. As a result of the UAV strike, at least one Armenian serviceman was killed and six others were wounded.
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces are concentrating forces near the village of Parukh, which they managed to occupy in March-April of this year. Most likely, an attempt will be made to develop the spring success and occupy the dominant heights near the Temple.
The Artsakh Defense Army is moving reinforcements to dangerous areas. Russian peacekeepers from Armenian posts are firing warning shots.
