BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 19. The Azerbaijani
Army launched a counter-offensive operation, later called the "Iron
Fist", on September 27, 2020, in response to the large-scale
provocation of the Armenian armed forces along the frontline.


The erupted 44-day Second Karabakh War ended with the liberation
of Azerbaijan’s territories from nearly 30-year Armenian
occupation.


Trend presents the chronicle of the 23-rd day
of the second Karabakh war:


- President Ilham Aliyev has received a delegation led by the Speaker of the Turkish Grand
National Assembly Mustafa Sentop.


- President Ilham Aliyev gave a video interview to the Russian TASS news agency.


- President Ilham Aliyev shared a publication on Twitter about Armenia's heavy
artillery shelling of settlements in violation of the humanitarian
ceasefire.


- President Ilham Aliyev congratulated Chief of the State Border Service of
Azerbaijan, Colonel General Elchin Guliyev on raising the
Azerbaijani flag on the Khudafarin bridge.


- President Ilham Aliyev shared a publication on Twitter about the liberation of several
villages in the Jabrayil district.







- The Armenian military equipment and weapons were destroyed.
The list of the destroyed equipment has been announced.


- A high-ranking official of an Armenian Armed Forces battalion
was killed.


- As a result of the shelling of the Tartar district by the
Armenian Armed Forces, the owner of the house was seriously
injured.


- Armenia shelled Azerbaijani positions on
the state border.


- The Azerbaijani army has seized a certain amount of military equipment
abandoned by Armenian troops.


- Armenians opened fire on the film crew of the Azerbaijani AzTV channel
in Aghdam, injuring one journalist.


- The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan has released a video of a
war trophies seized from Armenian troops in the direction of
Jabrayil and Fuzuli.