Artsakh war veteran hero, Major-General Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, in an interview with Aravot.am, referring to the Armenian-Azerbaijani and Karabakh-Azerbaijan border tensions and the Azerbaijan’s aggression, said, “Azerbaijan has no other way out, Azerbaijan’s leadership is talking about vacating territories, he deceives his people, he knows well that he cannot vacate these territories, he simply shows that he aims to vacate. He can do only this, and he is doing all of it by a special squad that is trained in Turkey, they are brought here trying to cross our borders, of course, our conscripted soldiers do not allow and resist. We also train special squads, but without these actions, of course, if needed, we do it and will do. Our conscripted soldier protects our borders quite well.”
The General noted that the soldiers defending the enemy’s borders are not excited, they do not protect their country. According to him, although it is represented that Azerbaijanis are a monolith nation, but it is not true, there are more than 10 nations living in Azerbaijan. These nations, according to the Commandos, are tortured, they do not feel that Azerbaijan is their country, their land, these soldiers are also exposed to some actions and are kept alert, a large quantity of ammunition and weapons and give a command to shoot. According to Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, Azerbaijan is unable doing more than that. To our question that Armenia eventually is a CSTO member, so whether Russia has nothing to do on this matter, moreover, it is selling arms to Azerbaijan, Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan said that even during the violation of Armenia’s airspace by Turkish helicopters, the CSTO member states should have gathered together and responded, which they did not do.
As for the sale of weapons by Russia to Azerbaijan, our interlocutor said, “We need to know well that Russia is not selling new weapons and ammunition, they are old, there are new ones, but it seemed not to play a major role during the war years. We have a larger quantity of arms and ammunition, they give us too, simply we have no right to talk about it, it is a military secret.”
The General said that according to the NATO and Turkish military experts, Azerbaijan can do nothing against Armenia. “If they could do some serious actions, they would do it long ago. I have said many times, God forbid to start a war, we will have great human losses, but we would shoot half of the weapons, half of the half on Azerbaijan and nothing will be left from Azerbaijan. Everything there is on the oil, we will destroy the factories, the whole Azerbaijan, but it will not happen, neither they will shoot on us nor we. The 10 percent of oil is theirs, the other percentage is in the hands of the US and England and these countries will not allow our people to shoot on oil, and we will shoot when they will shoot on us. There are very delicate issues there. We can achieve better success during the fight, but we do not need this success because we would have losses, our young people are much dear to us rather than, let’s say, moving a little forward and capturing lands. Our war veterans have a combat spirit. They want to go for actions. Why do I say this? In Karabakh and Martakert, war veterans gathered, they were born there and know the borders very well: our territories and their territories. They wanted to be allowed to pass the other side and do some actions. And look what action: not to go there to kill a soldier, they were saying, he is an ordinary soldier, a Turk, our enemy, but an ordinary soldier, he has parents, they wanted to go and destroy the detachments. They were saying, Armenian Ministry of Defense does not allow us doing it, please ask our Defense Ministry. I tell them, they are government agencies, we have our squads. We have the courage, we defend our country, we protect our nation, we should not rest, but it is sad that we have losses, our soldiers, our successes, our strength a little bit in the society … But let them be sure that no one can attack us.”
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