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By Rashid Shirinov

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) belonging to the Armenian side, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry reported on December 12.

The ministry said that the UAV was destroyed over the line of contact between the Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in Azerbaijan’s Fizuli region while attempting to perform reconnaissance over the country’s army positions.

Last month, the Azerbaijani armed forces destroyed two drones of Armenia – one in Fizuli region, and the second on the line of contact in the direction of Azerbaijan’s Tartar region. The UAVs were doing reconnaissance flights over the positions of the Azerbaijani armed forces.

Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan laying territorial claims on its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan's territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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