ArmInfo. Primitive ways of bombing the positions of the NKR Defense Army are conditioned by Baku's desire to save on ammunition. Former Defense Minister of Armenia, Lieutenant-General Vagarshak Harutyunyan, expressed such an opinion to journalists.
On January 20, the Artsakh Defense Ministry reported on two strikes inflicted on Saturday by two Azeri unmanned aerial vehicles on the positions of the Republic's Defense Army. According to Artsakh militaries, mortar mine and explosives were dropped on Artsakh positions. As a result of both attacks, the Defense Army did not incur losses.
"It is still necessary to keep the tension in Karabakh in Azerbaijan, but they do not want to spend money on ammunition in Baku, the war is a confrontation of resources in which it is always necessary to take into account the effectiveness and price of one's own actions. The enemy, of course, has expensive shock Israeli UAVs, but why use them when expensive UAVs can be knocked down. "So they use grenades attached to a faceted glass on a primitive drone," the military said.
Harutyunyan also does not exclude that the last attempt of sabotage and reconnaissance penetration of the enemy could become a "response" to the speech of the Armenian president from the PACE platform in response to the provocative statements of the head of the Azerbaijani delegation Samad Seyidov.
On January 25, the NKR Defense Army reported on an unsuccessful attempt of reconnaissance and sabotage penetration of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces through the contact line in Karabakh. The enemy was thrown back and suffered losses. There are no losses from the Armenian side.
"After serious re-equipment of the advanced Defense Army during the 2017th Baku refrained from attempts to sabotage, nevertheless, the realization of its own failure to win a large-scale war, forces the authorities of this country to maintain the degree of incandescence on the contact line with all the forces. This is why Ilham Aliyev does not agree to implement mechanisms investigation of incidents," summed up the military.