Armenian drone drops home-made explosive on territory of Azerbaijan (PHOTO)
By Rashid Shirinov
The Armenian armed forces’ drone dropped a home-made explosive near the border with Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on January 13.
The Ministry said that the Armenian side uses such explosives to damage the Azerbaijani army personnel, as well as civilians living in the border areas.
After the explosive device was defused, it was found that it consists of an electric detonator, a detonating cord, and batteries for its activating and metal elements.
Armenia purposefully uses such explosive devices, prohibited by international law, on the Azerbaijani-Armenian state border to escalate the situation, provoke Azerbaijan to take reciprocal measures and once again draw attention of other members of the military-political bloc, which includes Armenia, to the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the ministry said.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said that the Armenian military-political criminal regime bears responsibility for a possible incident and its consequences.
Last month, the Azerbaijan army destroyed two Armenian drones in the line of contact between the Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in Azerbaijan’s Talish village and in Fuzuli region, as well as lowered another Armenian drone to the ground.
Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan laying territorial claims on its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.
Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.
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