At around 14:00 {GMT+4) on November 8, the strikes were inflicted on the foremost command post of the Armenian Armed Forces in the Khojavend direction of the front, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense reported.
As a result of airstrikes by the Azerbaijan Air Force Su-25 attack aircraft and use of the UAVs, trenches and shelters of Armenian troops were destroyed, and high-ranking officials were neutralized.
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.