Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
February 14, 2005, Monday
AN AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER CRITICALLY WOUNDED AT THE LINE DIVIDING THE
AZERBAIJANI AND ARMENIAN ARMED FORCES
Positions of the Azerbaijani army came under enemy fire at the Agdam
direction on the line dividing the Armenian and Azerbaijani armed
forces. Serviceman Samir Bekirov of the Azerbaijani army was
critically wounded. (…) This has been the fifth case of gross
violation of the ceasefire agreement by Armenia since the start of
2005. According to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, soldier Adyl
Akhmedov was killed when positions of the Azerbaijani army in the
village of Shurabad (Agdam district) came under fire on January 26.
Positions of the Azerbaijani troops deployed near the village of Ayag
Garvand (Agdam region) came under intense fire from the same
direction on January 27 and 28, soldier Fuad Shikhiyev was critically
wounded in Armenia’s fire in the same area on January 31.
Translated by Andrei Ryabochkin