April 8, 2016 - 11:17 AMT
ARTICLE
Overview of Karabakh escalation
Interactive map
On the night of April 1-2, Azerbaijan initiated overt offensive actions in the southern, southeastern and northeastern section of the contact line with Nagorno Karabakh.

In the course of large-scale military clashes that lasted through April 5, Azerbaijani army used artillery, multiple rocket launchers, armored vehicles, military helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (including combat drones), among other weapons. These military actions were unprecedented in terms of the overall scale and the amount of weaponry involved since the 1994 ceasefire agreement, signed in Bishkek. In addition to the frontline battles, the Azerbaijani armed forces carried out rocket and artillery strikes on a number of civilian settlements and places of permanent deployment of military units in Karabakh, with many killed and injured as a result. PanARMENIAN.Net presents the whole picture of military actions in an updatable interactive map with pop-up information on the main activities and events.

Notation keys:

Marked in red are the main directions of Azerbaijan’s attacks along the contact line

Marked in green are data on the two Azerbaijani helicopters destroyed by Karabakh Defense Army

Marked in black are data on Azerbaijan’s rocket and artillery attacks on settlements of Artsakh and the military crimes perpetrated by the Azerbaijani units against the civilian population of Karabakh

Marked in yelloware interesting facts about the military actions and data on the types of weapons employed by Azerbaijan

Marked in blue are summary data on the losses, suffered by the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides during battles

Samson Hovhannisyan/ PanARMENIAN.Net