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By Rashid Shirinov

Azerbaijani Armed Forces destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the Armenian side attempting to carry out reconnaissance flights over the Azerbaijani positions in the Tartar direction of the front on June 21.

Armenia uses UAVs against Azerbaijan from time to time. Last time, Azerbaijani Air Forces detected and destroyed a tactical UAV near Azerbaijan’s Agdam region on March 2. On February 25, Azerbaijani armed forces destroyed Armenian UAV and pillbox near the Talish village. Another UAV belonging to the Armenian armed forces was destroyed on January 22 in the direction of Azerbaijan’s Tovuz region.

Armenia captured Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions from Azerbaijan in a war that followed the Soviet breakup in 1991. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and nearly 1 million were displaced as a result of the war.

Large-scale hostilities ended with a Russia-brokered ceasefire in 1994 but Armenia continued the occupation in defiance of four UN Security Council resolutions calling for immediate and unconditional withdrawal.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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