The Armenian Defence Ministry has confirmed 11 more its military servicemen were killed in Nagorno-Karabakh on November 2.
According to the updated official statistics as of October 27, over the past day, Yerevan confirmed the death of 11 soldiers and officers, including four reservists and two volunteers. Half of those killed were 18-20-year-old conscripts, the oldest was 46 years old.
Thus, the overall confirmed by Armenia military casualties reached 1177 since fighting with Azerbaijani forces erupted on September 27.
The Armenian armed forces committed a large-scale provocation, subjecting the positions of the Azerbaijani army to intensive shelling from large-caliber weapons, mortars, and artillery installations of various calibers in the front-line zone on Sept. 27 at 05:00 (Msk). The command of the Azerbaijani Army decided to launch a counter-offensive operation of Azerbaijani troops along the entire front to suppress the combat activity of the Armenian armed forces and ensure the safety of the civilian population. To date, Fizuli and Jabrayil districts, including the cities of Jabrayil and Fizuli, the city of Zangilan and part of Zangilan district, part of the Gubaldi region, the city of Gubadli, the city of Hadrut and a number of villages in the Khojavend region, the villages of Sugovushan and Talish in the Terter region, as well as the strategically important Murovdag mountain were liberated.
