BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 4. The Azerbaijani Army launched a counter-offensive operation, later called 'Iron Fist', in response to Armenian armed forces on September 27, 2020, Trend reports.
The 44-day second Karabakh war ended with the liberation of Azerbaijan’s territories from nearly 30-year Armenian occupation.
Trend presents chronicle of the Second Karabakh War for October 4, 2020:
- President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev announced the liberation of the city of Jabrayil and several villages of the district from the occupation by the Azerbaijani Army;
- President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev addressed the nation;
- President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev was interviewed by Al Arabiya TV channel;
- The glorious Azerbaijani Army liberated the following settlements: Jabrayil city, Karkhulu village, Shukurbayli village, Yukhari Maralyan village, Charakan village, Dashkasan village, Horovlu village, Dejal village, Mahmudlu village, Jafarabad village.
- President Ilham Aliyev congratulated commanders of the Joint Corps – Major General Mayis Barkhudarov, Major General Hikmat Mirzayev and all their personnel on the liberation of the city of Jabrayil and nine villages of Jabrayil district.
- First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva made an Instagram post on the victories of the Azerbaijani Army on the front.
- The Azerbaijani flag was hoisted in the liberated Sugovushan village;
- Two civilians killed, and two were injured as a result of heavy artillery shelling of Azerbaijan's Beylagan by the Armenian armed forces. The Prosecutor General's Office issued a statement on the shelling of Azerbaijan's Ganja, resulting in the death of one civilian and injuries to four residents.
- The criminal case was initiated against Armenia's Arayik Harutyunyan;
- Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev made an appeal to international organizations;
- The Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan released the list of people injured as a result of the Armenian provocation in Ganja;
- The Azerbaijani flag was hoisted at the post where National Hero of Azerbaijan Mubariz Ibrahimov alone killed a lot of Armenian servicemen;
- The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense shared once again the footage of a large number of the Armenian armed forces’ weapons, other military equipment, and vehicles seized as a trophy in the Jabrayil direction.