Exactly a year ago, on September 27, 2020, Azerbaijan's Patriotic War began. On that day, Armenia's occupying forces subjected the positions of the armed forces of Azerbaijan along the front line and the adjacent populated areas in Azerbaijan to intensive fire with the use of large-calibre weapons, artillery and mortars. Baku decided to launch a counter-offensive operation to ensure the safety of the civilian population. Vestnik Kavkaza offers its readers to follow the events of the 44 days of Azerbaijan's Patriotic War as they were covered a year ago.
On the night of the war's thirty-eighth day, November 3, the fighting concentrated in the liberated border areas and in the eastern sector of the frontline. The Armenian Armed Forces fired at Azerbaijani positions on the border of the two countries, outside the combat zone.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia spread fake news about the shelling of the civilian population of Shushi and Khojavend, including with prohibited weapons, as well as about the re-occupation of Azerbaijani territories and the destruction of the formations of the Azerbaijani liberation army.
Artillery shelling of the Dashkesan region of Azerbaijan again provoked a forest fire. Another Armenian drone was shot down in the morning. The city of Fizuli, liberated from occupation, was fired upon by Smerch missiles.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei demanded that Armenia withdraw its troops from Azerbaijan. The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that the meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan cannot yet take place.
In the afternoon, another group of invaders was liquidated, which tried to invade the Zangilan region of Azerbaijan, a little later - Armenian snipers in the Gubadli region. Footage of the elimination of the ammunition depots of the invaders and the suppression of the attack by the Armenian Armed Forces in the eastern sector of the front was presented.
In response, the invaders resumed shelling of peaceful settlements in the Aghdam and Aghjabedi regions of Azerbaijan. At about 15:00 it became known that the commander of the occupation forces' regiment had deserted from the battlefield, another Armenian officer, the battalion commander, was destroyed in the northeastern sector of the front, another, the regiment commander - in the eastern sector of the front.
Yerevan's fake news reached the point of absurdity: a certain core was presented as a "nuclear weapon" used by Azerbaijan, then there was a statement about strikes on the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha.
The Russian Foreign Minister announced Moscow's support for the aspirations of Baku and Yerevan to peacefully settle the conflict. Armenian President Armen Sarkissian, in turn, stated that this requires interaction between Russia and Turkey, Moscow confirmed the need for contacts with Ankara.
In the evening, footage of the liquidation of tanks of the occupying forces of Armenia was presented. The Armenian parliament reported that the invaders were left without weapons and food. Late in the evening, high-ranking occupiers who had fled from the combat zone were fired.
Thus, on the thirty-eighth day of the war, strikes on the settlements of Azerbaijan practically stopped due to the depletion of the ammunition of the invaders in the occupation zone - they were completely cut off from supply, which was recognized in Armenia. In fact, most of Armenia's occupation troops were taken into the cauldron, the combat vehicles moving along it were destroyed from the air by the Azerbaijani liberation army. The war has entered its final stage.
