BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 2. Azerbaijan is
commemorating the seventh anniversary of the nation’s army success
in 2016 April battles, Trend reviews.
On April 2, 2016, all of the frontier positions and settlements of
Azerbaijan have been subjected to heavy fireplace by the Armenian Armed
Forces. As a results of the shelling of Azerbaijan’s settlements
situated alongside the road of contact, six civilians have been killed,
together with two youngsters beneath the age of 16. Numerous public and
personal services, together with civil infrastructure, have been severely
broken on account of the assault.
Azerbaijan responded with an armed offensive, which resulted in
4 days of preventing, because the nation liberated a number of necessary
strategic spots beforehand occupied by Armenian Armed Forces.
Among the liberated territories throughout the four-day preventing
have been heights across the village of Talish, in addition to Seysulan
settlement, and Leletepe hill situated within the path of Fuzuli
district. As a results of the April battles, 30 Armenian tanks, up
to fifteen artillery installations and engineering fortifications have been
subjected to destruction, 320 Armenian troopers have been killed and
over 500 enemy troopers have been wounded.
Military operations alongside the road of contact between the
Azerbaijani and Armenian forces ceased on April 5, by settlement of
the events.
As a results of the profitable counteroffensive, greater than 2,000
hectares of territory have been liberated from the Armenian occupation.
The April battles, generally, demonstrated President of the
Republic of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Ilham
Aliyev’s particular consideration to the military, the excessive fight readiness
of the Azerbaijan Armed Forces, their skill to liberate the
occupied territories.
Azerbaijani military’s victories within the April battles have laid the
basis for the liberation of Azerbaijani lands from the
Armenian occupation throughout the 44-day battle (from late Sept. by
early Nov.2020).
Today, each citizen of Azerbaijan is proud to see the nation’s
flag flying in Shusha and different lands liberated from Armenian
occupation.