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Employee of Azerbaijan’s Mine Action Agency was hit by a mine in Azerbaijan’s Aghdam district, liberated from Armenian occupation, Trend reports. The mine explosion took place during demining of a new road, connecting the villages of Bash Garvand and Uzundara Read More …
Russian peacekeepers defused more than 300 explosive objects found on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. “Today, at one of the destruction sites, the group is destroying explosive objects. To date, more than forty Read More …
An employee of the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) was hit by an anti-personnel mine blast on July 27. The incident occurred in Mehdili village of Jabrayil region that was liberated from the Armenian occupation in last year’s Read More …
Human Rights Watch documented the use of two types of ground-launched cluster munitions in multiple locations in Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh during the armed conflict that began on September 27 and concluded on November 10 with a ceasefire. Both Armenian and Read More …
Azerbaijan’s Mine Action Agency has seized and defused 208 mines and unexploded ordnance on territories liberated from the Armenian occupation in 2020. In a report on demining operations carried out in the liberated lands from July 5 to 10, the Read More …
The United States welcomes the July 3 release by Azerbaijan of 15 Armenian detainees and their return to Armenia. We also welcome Armenia’s decision to share information with Azerbaijan that will facilitate humanitarian demining. These actions follow Azerbaijan’s June 12 Read More …
Engineering and sapper units of humanitarian demining of the Russian peacekeeping contingent continue to clear the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh from the danger of mines and explosive objects, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Currently, Russian servicemen are carrying out work to Read More …
A bipartisan letter led by Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Todd Young (R-IN) is calling for funds to support demining in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) reports. The letter, which was addressed to the Senate Appropriations Read More …
The working group on clearing mines and unexploded ordnance on de-occupied territories has held its meeting and mainly focused on mine risk awareness steps, the local media reported on June 24. The meeting considered issues reflected in reports made about Read More …
Azerbaijan’s Mine Action Agency has disseminated a report on mine-clearing operations carried out on June 7-12 on territories liberated from the Armenian occupation in 2020. The agency said that 596 anti-personnel and 54 anti-tank mines, as well as 144 unexploded Read More …
The Mine Action Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan plans to purchase new equipment for mechanical demining, an employee of the agency Musa Mammadov told Trend. According to Mammadov, the agency currently has six mechanical demining machines at its disposal. Read More …
Some 82 anti-personnel and 18 anti-tank mines, as well as 79 unexploded ordnance, were found and neutralized on the liberated territories between April 19 and April 24, Azerbaijan’s Mine Action Agency has reported. Some 90.8 hectares of the Azerbaijani territories Read More …
In order to provide power supply to Azerbaijan’s Gubadly, Zangilan and Jabrayil districts, previously liberated from Armenian occupation, de-mining operations are being carried out on the districts, Idris Ismayilov, Head of the Operational Headquarters of the Mine Action Agency of Read More …
Russian mine action specialists have surveyed an area of more than 250 hectares in Nagorno-Karabakh to spot and clear explosive objects, the press service of the Russian emergencies ministry told TASS on Thursday. “Over the period of their mission in Read More …
An Azerbaijani soldier has been killed and two have been wounded in an explosion in Aghdam region recently liberated from Armenia’s occupation, the Defence Ministry reported on February 4. Soldier Gubad Zeynalov was killed, servicemen Nemat Babayev and Balagardash Malikmammadov Read More …
A specialist of Azerbaijan’s Mine Action Agency has been seriously wounded in the blast of an anti-personnel mine in liberated Aghdam region, the agency press service reported on January 29. The demining group team leader at the agency, Elmaddin Mirzayev, Read More …
The specialists of the International Mine Action Center of the Russian defense ministry continue demining works in the territory of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), the Russian defense ministry reports. This time the demining works are being carried out in Martakert town. Read More …
A Russian officer died during demining works near Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian defense ministry said on Friday. “During demining works at a road section near the settlement of Shusha on December 17, an explosive device went off. As a Read More …
Turkey’s Defense Ministry said on Dec. 16 that 136 members of the Special Mine Detection and Clearance Team (OMAT) began clearing mined areas of Upper Karabakh that were liberated from Armenian occupation. “Clearing of mines and handmade explosives continues in Read More …
Russian deminers have used the Uran-6 mine clearing robot to clear a part of the Stepanakert airport area in Nagorno-Karabakh of mines, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Friday. “The robot helps ensure the safety of deminers Read More …