Video proves: helicopters didn't cross border and didn't attack: Armenia's Defense Ministry
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YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS: The video of the hit Karabakh Air Forces helicopter, spread by Azerbaijan, proves once more that the statement, spread by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense, does not correspond to the reality. The Spokesperson of the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Artsrun Hovhannisyan wrote in his Facebook profile that the video proves that the helicopters of the Air Forces of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic did not violate the border and do not attack any positions.
“According to the procedure, the attacking helicopters or even the ones, flying back from the attack, use quite another tactics in flight and other technical means”, - wrote Hovhannisyan, Armenpress reports.
According to the information, obtained from the Defense Army of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the rival continues keeping the situation on the border tensed, which does not yet allow approaching the hit helicopter. The rival violated the ceasefire regime more than 250 times, keeping shooting all night long.
Previously it was reported that in the airspace of the eastern sector of the Karabakh-Azerbaijani border, in the result of the violation of the ceasefire regime, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces shot a helicopter Mi-24 of the Air Forces of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic during a training flight on November 12 at 13:45. The place of the shot is very close to the line of contact. The press service of the Defense Army of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic informed Armenpress that the rival continues firing in the direction of the incident. The details of the incident are being investigated. Later it was announced from Stepanakert that by preliminary data there are three victims. The Commander of the staff was the Major Sergey Sahakyan.
The Spokesperson of the Artsakh President Davit Babayan told Armenpress that thehelicopter was not intended for military actions. “The helicopter was not intended for military actions and did not have any weapons in it. It just implemented training exercises. The helicopter was not of danger for the rival. The Azerbaijani side hit the helicopter from the back”, - said Davit Babayan.