Chief Executive: Armenian troops damage power line in Agdam
By Rashid Shirinov
Armenian Armed Forces shelled three villages of Agdam region on the evening of May 16, Chief Executive of the Region Ragub Mammadov told Trend on May 17.
Starting from the second half of the day, Armenian armed forces, located in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, fired from mortars the villages of Ashagi Garvand, Ahmadaghali and Tazakend in Agdam region. As a result, the power line with capacity of 10,000 volts was damaged in Tazakend village.
“At night the line was restored, and the village was provided with electricity,” Mammadov told reporters.
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry has earlier reported that starting from the evening of May 16, Armenian armed forces subjected to intensive fire from mortars of various calibers the Azerbaijani positions in the Agdam direction of the front and human settlements.
Thanks to the urgent actions, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces suppressed the enemy. The ministry informed that the military equipment of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces was not harmed and the military personnel did not suffer any losses. The artillery shells fired by the Armenian armed forces basically fell on empty sowing areas and on the territory near settlements.
The Defense Ministry also noted that Azerbaijani Armed Forces fully control the operational situation.
The Armenian side constantly breaches the ceasefire and resorts to attempts of sabotage against Azerbaijan. Over the past 24 hours, Armenia’s armed forces, using large-caliber machine guns and mortars, have 110 times violated the ceasefire along the line of contact.
For more than two decades Armenia and Azerbaijan are in a state of war following Yerevan’s aggression, ethnic cleansing policy and illegal territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenia keeps under control over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions in a brutal war in the early 1990s.
Despite a fragile ceasefire agreement signed in 1994, Armenia keeps violating armistice with Azerbaijan.
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