The day before the end of the Armenian-American military exercises, Azerbaijan launched a move on the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
According to global network reports, on the evening of the 19th, the Azerbaijani army launched artillery attacks on Stepanakert, the capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said that the Afghan army will carry out an "anti-terrorist operation" in the Nagorno-Karabakh region to restore "constitutional order", which is a "large-scale provocation" measure to thwart the Armenian side.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the State of Albania, the Azerbaijani army took control of 60 strongholds of the Armenian army that night, destroying more than 20 of its military vehicles, more than 70 artillery pieces, 2 air defense systems and 6 electronic warfare platforms. A video of the destruction of the runner-up Russian-made Toll-like anti-aircraft missile went viral on social media, after the Afghan Ministry of Defense confirmed that the Afghan army used a TB-2 drone to destroy a radar station of the Armenian army.
The Afghan army shelled the positions of the runners
In addition, some media announced that as of the morning of the 20th, the Afghan army had broken through the Maltuni Line established by the runner-up in the Nagorno-Karabakh area, and the mayor of Maltuni, Sariyan, appointed by Armenia, was suspected to have been killed in the shelling.
The Azerbaijani presidential palace accused Armenia of violating the ceasefire agreement signed by Asia, Argentina and Russia and continuously strengthening its military deployment in the Nagorno-Karabakh region over the past three years. Unless Armenia's "illegal army" in the Nagorno-Karabakh region lays down its arms and surrenders, the "anti-terrorist operation" of the Afghan army will continue.
The Armenian side was clearly caught off guard by Azerbaijan, but this was not the most tragic, because the subsequent diplomatic interaction between Armenia and Russia and the United States showed how a pro-American regime was eventually abandoned by the United States.
The "invincible in the world" US military was instigated at a critical moment
The day before Azerbaijan's attack, Armenia was still holding military exercises with the US military, but after the raid by the Afghan army in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, the United States, which Armenia had been counting on, was silent - so far, the response of the United States to this conflict has only been Blinken's fluttering phrase "calling for dialogue among all parties", not even a sentence of condemnation or threat to Azerbaijan, as for the US military exercises with Armenia, so far it has only stood by and watched coldly.
And Armenia's former "backer" - Russia is also silent about this conflict, or Azerbaijan's military operation itself has the tacit approval of Russia.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova only emphasized that Russia has contacted Azerbaijan without mentioning Armenia, while Russian media reports focus more on publicizing Putin's previous statement at the Eastern Economic Forum, that is, Armenian leader Pashinyan told him that Asia recognizes Azerbaijan's sovereignty over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
The duties of the Russian troops in Nakawi are also interesting
In addition, according to the Russian newspaper Viewpoint, the Azerbaijani army informed the Russian peacekeepers in the Nagorno-Karabakh region about their actions before the offensive, and the Russian peacekeepers handed over to the Afghan army all the positions and equipment coordinates of the runner-up in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is why the Azerbaijani army was able to achieve so many results in one night.
Obviously, Russia's position is already self-explanatory. In this context, the attitude of the other two major powers in the Caucasus to this conflict is even less important.
The Turkish Ministry of Defense bluntly stated that the Turkish side will stand with Azerbaijan as always. The TB-2 UAV used by the Afghan army to strike the runner-up position was sold by Turkey to Azerbaijan; Although the Iranian side also acquiesced to the attack of the Afghan army on the Nagorno-Karabakh region and recognized that Nagorno-Karabakh belonged to Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan could not attack Armenia itself.
Armenian people protest that Pashinyan "provoked"
Under the condition that Europe and the United States are watching coldly, Turkey and Iran are supporting and acquiescing, the cornered Armenia can only turn back and ask Russia to uphold justice, but the Russian official still responds with silence, Russian media picked up Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan's "black history" sarcastically said that Pashinyan also declared that Russia's protection was "unsustainable" a few days ago, clamoring for the arrest of Putin, why do you want to seek Russia's justice now?
Due to the delay in receiving a response from the Russian side, the Armenian government finally made a very sad decision - the Armenian Ministry of Defense issued a statement that the armed forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh region had no relations with Armenia and that Armenian troops on the Asian-Afghan border were not allowed to fire at the Azerbaijani army. In other words, the Armenian army in the Nagorno-Karabakh region was thus abandoned by a statement from its own Ministry of Defense.