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Azerbaijani non-official sources report two recent losses and Azerbaijani Armed Forces three servicemen wounded in combat conditions. The official agencies of Azerbaijan did not comment on those incidents, Armenian military-analytical outlet Razm.info writes citing alternative sources.

According to the article, the sources report that 2 servicemen from the separate combined-arms army of the Nakhijevan Autonomous Republic, senior lieutenant Anar Kerimov and contract soldier Mehdi Zeynalov, had been caught in a storm and died on the spot.

It is also noted that to this day only Zeynalov’s body has been possible to be found. According to the outlet, the same source says that three servicemen from one of the military units in Beylagan district, Azerbaijan, had been seriously wounded as a result of mortar firing on the frontline. The wounded soldiers were taken to the Central clinical military hospital in Baku. Other details are not disclosed.

This is not the first case of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan hiding the losses. Consequently, the Armenian side is obliged to consult alternative sources more frequently in order to find out the real number of the losses in the Azerbaijani army. Note also that since early 2015 the Azerbaijani government agencies acknowledged the death of 13 servicemen: according to official information, 9 of them were combat deaths on the frontline.

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