On December 4, at 12:00, a minute of silence was observed across the country to pay tribute to martyrs of the second Nagorno-Karabakh War who sacrificed their lives for the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
Note, Armenian Armed Forces launched a large-scale military attack on positions of Azerbaijani army on the front line, using large-caliber weapons, mortars and artillery on Sept. 27. Azerbaijan responded with a counter-offensive along the entire front.
On November 10, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia signed an agreement to end six weeks of fierce fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.
According to the MoD, 2783 military servicemen of the Azerbaijan Armed Forces were killed in the second Nagorno-Karabakh war. Also, in the case of unidentified bodies of 100 servicemen, a DNA profile is being used to establish the identity of them. More than 100 servicemen went missing.
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