Azerbaijan regains control over Armenia-occupied hill VIDEO

During a large-scale counter-offensive operation conducted along the border with Armenia on September 13 and 14, the Azerbaijani army liberated the strategic height of Bugdadag in the Dashkasan district. This height, which is located on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border, has been under the control of the Armenian army since the mid-1990s, which allowed them to maintain full control over the Azerbaijani army positions in the direction of Dashkasan, including supply routes leading to these positions.

The positions occupied by the Armenians made it possible to fully control the mountain lake Bala Goycha.

However, now the height and, as a result, all adjacent areas, including the aforementioned lake, are under the Azerbaijani army control. Engineering and fortification troops are clearing the area around Bughdadagh from mines and laying new supply routes.

Strengthening works are being carried out at the liberated height.

In the report prepared by AzTV from this height, it is told how Azerbaijani special forces liberated the height of Bughdadagh, moving along impassable mountain trails, ravines, along the bed of a mountain river.

At one time, the brigade of General Polad Hashimov took up positions in the direction of this height. The fighters say that at that time Hashimov did a lot of work on the construction of supply routes to the Azerbaijani army positions and the strengthening of posts.

"The general dreamed most of all about the liberation of Bughdadagh Hill," recalls one of the officers who served with Polad Hashimov at that time.

A mortar unit of the Armenian army was stationed on Bughdadagh, large-caliber machine guns were installed. The thermal imaging camera, mounted on a 30-metre support at an altitude, made it possible to observe the Azerbaijani territories at a depth of up to 30 kilometres, as a result, to monitor all the movements of the Azerbaijani army. One of the officers participating in the battles for the liberation of the height says that when examining the memory of this camera, it was found that there were footage of the Azerbaijani army’s actions.

Specially trained mountain commandos attacked the height from two directions in the early morning. This came as a surprise to the Armenians, but they resisted, opening fire on the Azerbaijani military with automatic grenade launchers. Despite the shelling, the commandos advanced crawling over the rocks and captured the Armenian army positions located at the height, which had been strengthening for many years.

In the battles for the liberation of the height, several Azerbaijani fighters were injured, serviceman Asiman Imamverdiyev was killed. Today the height bears the this hero's name.