The Ministry of Defense of Armenia called the earlier reports about the Turkish drone flying over the capital a fake. The representative of the department said that only civil and military aviation are allowed in the airspace.
The airspace over Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh is controlled by the air defense forces of Armenia, Karabakh and the Russian Aerospace Forces, representative of the Armenian Defense Ministry Shushan Stepanyan wrote on Facebook. So she responded to reports of the appearance of a Turkish drone in the air.
“The air defense forces of the Armenian Armed Forces, together with the aerospace defense forces of Russia, defended the airspace of Armenia and Artsakh,” she wrote. According to her, only military aviation flights are allowed there, as well as civil aircraft that have notified about their flights.
Stepanyan stated that earlier reports that a Turkish drone had allegedly been spotted in the airspace of Yerevan do not correspond to reality. The Ministry of Defense appealed to the National Security Service of Armenia with a request to find out the source of the information, she noted.
Earlier, Aysor reported that a Turkish-made Bayraktar drone flew over Yerevan, citing a message from political scientist Edgar Elbakyan.
A complete ceasefire has been declared in Nagorno-Karabakh since midnight on November 10, the sides stopped at the positions they occupied at that moment. The end of hostilities was announced by the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.
In accordance with the agreement reached, three regions will be returned to Azerbaijan, Russian peacekeepers will control the Lachin corridor, through which communication with Nagorno-Karabakh is carried out, as well as the territory of the region.
Russian peacekeepers and military equipment also arrived in the region. They will remain there for a period of five years with automatic renewal unless either party declares its intention to end the application of this provision.
By agreement of the parties, all refugees will return to Nagorno-Karabakh and neighboring regions, and the exchange of prisoners and bodies of the dead will also be carried out.
The President of Azerbaijan regarded the agreement as a victory for Baku in the war. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that he does not consider the results of the agreement a victory for his country, but he is not ready to evaluate them as a defeat either. “This is not a victory, but there will be no defeat until you admit that you are a loser. We will never recognize ourselves as losers, and this should be the beginning of our era of national unity and revival, ”he said.
After the announcement of the trilateral agreement, protest actions began in Yerevan, the citizens considered it a loss and a betrayal of the country’s leadership of its people.
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