1. Razminfo has found new evidence that #mercenaries from #Syria were located in #Azerbaijan and included in the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) of Azerbaijan.
2. The photos published on September 30th by Idlib Post (@IdlibEn) show armed men in new uniforms of SBGS of Azerbaijan. They are not shaved, which suggest that they are not SBGS troops.
3. The room where the #Syrian#mercenaries have taken the selfies is in the military unit of the SBGS of #Azerbaijan, located in #Horadiz. The same room was previously shown in 2015 TV report about that border military unit.
4. It should be noted that on October 3, a video of Arabic-speaking armed men in the uniform of the Azerbaijani SBGS guards was published. @Razminfo specialists geolocated the place of the filming to the front of Horadis military unit.
5. Since the beginning of Azerbaijan's attack on Artsakh, other video and photo evidences have appeared proving the presence of mercenaries in the war zone and their participation in hostilities.
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President of #Artsakh relived Lieutenant-General Jalal Harutyunyan from the post of Artsakh Minister of Defense - Commander of the Defense Army because he was wounded.
Mikael Arzumanyan will assume the duties.
@Pres_Artsakh wishes Jalal Harutyunyan a speedy recovery and is sure that he will return to serve his homeland very soon.
Arayik Harutyunyan adds "Mikael Arzumanyan realizes the degree of responsibility in his new position, he will spare no effort and energy to justify that trust"
Mikael Arzumanyan was promoted from Major-General to Lieutenant-General.
Thread #Azerbaijan and #Turkey prepared for the war in advance.
Statement by Armenia's Prosecutor's Office
During the preliminary investigation of the criminal case, factual data was received about the aggressive war started against #Armenia and #Artsakh prosecutor.am/en/mn/7986/
2. Since August of this year a large number of servicemen from special subdivisions of Turkish Armed Forces, while being in Azerbaijan, have conducted mass military training with the servicemen of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.
3. The trainings were conducted in mountainous areas in order to receive skills & be ready to fight in those conditions. During the exercises & trainings the servicemen of Turkish Armed Forces said that an attack would be carried out soon on the military positions of Artsakh.
1/15 Long thread on #ArmeniaAgainstTerrorism
Summary of reports and evidences of #jihadist groups currently fighting against #Armenia.
Compiled by Analyst Aram Khachatyan
2/15 The first reports appeared in mid-July. First it was #Kurdish news Agency Firat @anfenglish, who reported about the corresponding decision of #Turkish authorities on July 18th and about the transportation of 200 #jihadists to #Azerbaijan.
3/15 Later there were some other #Kurdish sources (e.g. Hawar News Agency @enhawarnews) claiming the same. On Sep 22nd, few days prior to war, @LindseySnell, a prominent journalist published a photo supposedly with #Hamza group militants, in a plane arriving to #Baku via #Ankara.
2/4 We now have the Turks, who have stepped in and provided resources to Azerbaijan, increasing the risk, increasing the firepower that’s taking place in this historic fight over this place called Nagorno-Karabakh, a small territory with about 150,000 people. highly contentious.
3/4 The resolution of that conflict ought to be done through negotiation and peaceful discussions, not through armed conflict, and certainly not with third party countries coming in to lend their firepower to what is already a powder keg of a situation.