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Artsakh Defense Army holds its own in second day of heavy fighting

Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan and MoD of Armenia Davit Tonoyan visited the Operations Control Center of the Artsakh Defense Army to follow developments along the LoC. (Photo: Shushan Stepanyan)

YEREVAN—Battles of varying intensity continue to rage along the entire length of the Line of Contact (LoC) as Azerbaijan’s attempted invasion of Artsakh enters its second day. Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan announced on Monday that an Armenian counter-offensive launched around midnight the previous day successfully recaptured the majority of front-line positions ceded to the Azeris on the first day of fighting. “We are fighting the combined forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey,” said the president during the press briefing.

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Raffi Elliott

Raffi Elliott is a Canadian-Armenian political risk analyst and journalist based in Yerevan, Armenia. A former correspondent and columnist for the Armenian Weekly, his focus is socioeconomic, political, business and diplomatic issues in Armenia.

18 Comments

  1. Stay strong Armenia. Know that you can only rely on yourself to get the job done. No one else is going to come to your rescue- not Russia, USA, France etc it’s all you. It was done at Sardarabad, it was done in 1994 and it will be done now.

  2. We are standing strong on our land, ancient land where the spirits of our ancestors from thousands of years bread with us! We are going to win in the name of the Father and of the Son, and Holy Spirit! Amen! Love you Armenia and Artsakh!

    1. Och, me mudder-land is Eire, but they are not a bulwark of Christendom in a hostile neighborhood. The Irish government import mosul-mans now to weaken their culture. Heck, I don’t consider Eire a Christian country anymore, despite the lip service originally paid to it in their constitution.

      God bless Artsahh and Armenia! Defenders of the faith!

  3. Where can we go to follow this more closely, as well as donate to Armenia? Not that I have much to donate…

    1. Are you sure the “GiveButter” link is legit? I searched the linked organizations website (withoursoldiers.com), they made no mention of the campaign on the “givebutter” site. For now I will donate to WithOurSoldiers PayPal that I found via their website.

    2. Anca.org

      Please spread awareness: it is painful to watch an ancient Indigenous people of that origin attacked and the world silent!

  4. In terms of Russia being “Azerbaijan’s largest supplier of heavy weaponry,” that cannot possibly be true. In the past three days of fighting, the vast majority of military weapons used by the Azerbaijanis have been supplied by Turkey. In the fighting, back in July, as well as other recent Azerbaijani terrorist attacks (prior to last Sunday), most of the military weapons used by the Azerbaijanis had consisted of Israeli-made weapons.

    It’s rather absurd that the article, from above, refers to Turkey’s military and material support of Azerbaijan as being “allegations.” On the contrary, it’s a fact. Artsakh President, Arayik Harutyunyan, who had been informed by his sources, had stated, “Azerbaijani forces are actively using Turkish military equipment and weapons in their attacks on the entire border of Artsakh and Azerbaijan.”

    “Armenian government press sources are also citing Armenian intelligence and reporting that 4,000 mercenaries are fighting alongside Azerbaijani troops.”

    This, therefore means that in addition to those two mercenary soldiers (from the Reuters interview), at least 3,998 more were transferred to Azerbaijan from Turkey.

    1. Those Zionists, are certainly not the slightest bit better than our Turkbaijani/Turk enemies. If, instead of Azerbaijan, it had been Israel who had been our neighbor, it would undoubtedly be teaming up with Turkey to create the same amount of terror against the Armenians, in an attempt to wipe out the Armenian culture and seize what’s left of the Armenian homeland.

  5. I am 47 years old man living in Central America with no armenian etnic background but i am willing to do everything on my hand to help or donate to Armenia and Arsakh. We as a human being can no let this evil turks commit another crime against the Armenians people.

  6. I strongly deplore the unprovoked Azeri attack on Artsakh last Sunday. And I signed the letter to President Trump and Biden. That said, I think that Yerevanian is writing in a paranoid fashon about Israel. In fact, if you pay attention to what Erdogan says, then you will see that he very often attacks Israel verbally and in 2010 he sent jihadi terrorists and “human rights” fakers to break the legitimate Israeli siege on Gaza. Ten Turkish terrorist jihadis were killed by Israeli forces in defending against the jihadis. Unfortunately, Pres. Barak Hussein Obama of the USA at the time supported Erdogan against Israel, at the time of that Mavi Marmara incident in May 2010 and in later years. He was twisting Israel’s arm [Netanyahu’s arm] to pay compensation to the families of the dead terrorists. People in Israel were upset about Obama’s policy in this regard.

  7. If you strongly deplore the unprovoked Azeri attack on Artsakh (as you claim), then you should also strongly deplore the Israeli supply of highly sophisticated military weapons to the Azeris, which are being used to launch terrorist attacks against Stepanakert (as well as other Armenian towns), and also being used to kill Armenian soldiers.

    You should also strongly deplore that for many years, Israel had been vigorously assisting Turkey in its endless, brutal campaign of Armenian Genocide denialism.

    And, you should also strongly deplore the horrifying atrocities that the Palestinian people have been subjected to since 1948 by the state of Israel.

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