Azerbaijani Soldier Endures Multiple Leg Surgeries Following Attack Of Armenian Troops
Date
6/19/2023 3:05:14 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 19. The Armenian armed
forces committed provocation during the raising of the Azerbaijani
flag by Azerbaijani servicemen on the service territory at the
Lachin border checkpoint, Azerbaijani border guard Elshan Rustamov
told trend .
He was injured as a result shelling by the Armenian armed forces
in the direction of the checkpoint on June 15.
"During the firing from the Armenian side, we were unarmed. I
was injured in my left leg. At the checkpoint I was given first
aid, after which I was evacuated to the Fuzuli regional hospital.
An initial medical examination was carried out at the hospital, and
then I was taken to Baku," he recalled.
Rustamov said that he underwent two surgeries on his left
leg.
"Now I feel good. I thank the medical staff of the hospital and
the leadership of the State Border Service. In the near future, the
treatment will be completed and I will continue my service," he
said.
On June 15, 2023, at 08:45 (GMT +4), as a result of opening fire
from the territory of Armenia, a serviceman of the State Border
Service of Azerbaijan Elshan Rustamov, who served at the Lachin
border checkpoint, was injured.
The Armenian armed forces' firing point was suppressed by return
fire, the combat situation is under the control of Azerbaijani
units.
In order to prevent the transportation of manpower, ammunition,
mines, as well as other military equipment from Armenia for illegal
Armenian armed groups on the territory of Azerbaijan (which weren't
withdrawn contrary to the trilateral statement signed by
Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian leaders following the 2020 second
Karabakh war), and as an adequate response to the unilateral
establishment of a checkpoint by Armenia on the border with
Azerbaijan on April 22 at the entrance to the Lachin-Khankendi road
contrary to the trilateral statement of November 10, 2020, on April
23 at 12:00 (GMT+4), the units of the State Border Service of the
Republic of Azerbaijan set up a border checkpoint in its sovereign
territories, on the border with Armenia, at the beginning of the
Lachin-Khankendi road.
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