May 5, 2011 - 13:26 AMT
Arabo detachment commander: Azerbaijan hired Ukrainian and Baltic snipers

Azerbaijan hired new snipers, this time, from Ukraine and Baltic States, the commander of Arabo detachment stated.

As Manvel Yeghiazaryan told a news conference in Yerevan, “the snipers will work on the frontline, killing our soldiers.”

On April 29, Azerbaijan continued intensively firing at NKR positions from sniper rifles, killing two servicemen. Another soldier of the NKR Defense army was wounded. On April 28, servicemen of the NKR Defense Army Vazgen Bakhshyan, 19, was wounded in the head as a result of Azerbaijani firing at NKR positions in the south-eastern part of the line of contact between the NKR and Azerbaijani armed forces. Bakhshyan died on the way to a military hospital.