The Ministry of Defense of Armenia reported that it shot down an Azerbaijani helicopter in the southern part of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the border zone with Iran. The speaker of the defense department of the Republic of Armenia Shushun Stepanyan wrote about this on Facebook.
= Defense Army On October 1, in the southern part of the Artsakh-Azerbaijani conflict zone, in the area of Mount Varazatumb, units of the Defense Army shot down an enemy combat helicopter that crashed on the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the speaker noted.
The Ministry of Defense of Artsakh said that the helicopter was not shot down intentionally, but since active military operations are taking place near the border with Iran, such incidents are inevitable.
In turn, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan denied the information about the downing of the Azerbaijani helicopter that fell on the territory of Iran by the Armenian Armed Forces, "Sputnik Azerbaijan" reports.