STEPANAKERT, Artsakh (A.W.)—Members of Artsakh’s armed forces detected and prevented an Azerbaijani infiltration attempt at a military outpost in the southeastern section of the line of contact (LoC) between Artsakh and Azerbaijan, near Kuropatkino village, on Thursday morning.
According to a press statement published by the Artsakh Ministry of Defense (MoD), the Azerbaijani Army’s intelligence-gathering diversion unit suffered casualties in its 2 a.m. infiltration attempt. No further details have been released by the MoD at this time.
According to Armenia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tigran Balayan, provocations such as this incident are Azerbaijan’s attempt to take the international community’s focus away from its domestic abuses of humans rights. “Baku tries to compensate its failures in diplomacy and on the international arena, deviate the attention from abuse of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Azerbaijan, by staging provocations on the LoC,” Balayan said in a tweet.
In my opinion this is not good enough, and Armenians both in Armenia and Artsakh have failed to address their immediate security properly. Is there a ceasefire agreement in place? If yes, then there need to be consequences for Azerbaijan invading Artsakh villages. “We repelled them” are not consequences. Consequences mean that it will harm Azerbaijan to do it again more and more each time. And clearly there have been no consequences for the past 25 years which is why Azerbaijan is doing whatever it wants. Another excuse is “they lost more than we did”. Again, a mentality based on failure which will lead to nowhere. Azerbaijan is clearly winning here, because they have several ethnicities who are not in power and are used as cannon fodder, while Armenians cannot afford to lose their soldiers in the same manner.
This is how a dictator oil man plays disastrous poker game with his own people!
The Azeri regime is Armenia’s enemy. The Armenian oligarch robbers and thieves however, are Armenia’s “enemy lite”. They like emigration. That means more for them. I have asked again and again when is the diaspora youth going to be allowed to serve in the Armenian army? The answer is NEVER. The oligarchs don’t want outside power influence, other then financial handouts, as diaspora youth is real skin in the game and brings its own pressures and may eventually water down or weaken the oligarch grip of power and basically their ability for theft unhindered may end too. I don’t understand Armenians willingness to rip off other Armenians every chance they get. Traitors.