Ten years since Azerbaijan`s four-day April aggression against  Nagorno-Karabakh 

ArmInfo.  Ten years have passed since Azerbaijan's large-scale military aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh in April.

On April 2, 2016, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces initiated aggression  against Artsakh, which was accompanied by war crimes, gross  violations of the laws and customs of war, and international  humanitarian law. Independent experts believe this aggression was a  test of ground for the enemy's subsequent de-Armenization of Artsakh.

The April 2016 military actions were at the time considered the  largest since the May 1994 ceasefire agreement. During the fighting  from April 2 to 5, all Armenian military units, including artillery,  tank crews, and anti-tank units, demonstrated excellent performance.

During intense fighting, units of the Artsakh Defense Army destroyed  two Azerbaijani helicopters attacking Armenian positions, 26 tanks,  as well as 14 drones, one BM-21 Grad rocket launcher, four infantry  fighting vehicles, and one engineering unit.

During the fighting on the line of contact, the Armenian side lost 64  servicemen, 13 volunteers, and four civilians, and more than 120 were  wounded. Another nine servicemen were killed after the cessation of  active hostilities, prior to April 13, and several died later in  hospitals. Based on State Department data presented in Vienna on May  16 that same year, it is clear that in addition to the 81 Armenian  casualties, approximately 270 Azerbaijanis were killed. However,  analysts from the international research group Bellingcat estimated  Baku's losses at 400-500 soldiers killed.