Since May 2021, Azerbaijan Has Occupied an Area Nearly Equal to All of Yerevan from the Sovereign Territory of Armenia, Expert

Expert on foreign and security issues at the Luys Foundation, Derenik Khachatryan, writes on his Facebook page:

“Information has circulated since yesterday that since May 2021, Azerbaijan has occupied 127 square kilometers or 12,700 hectares of the sovereign territory of Armenia. To make it clear what this entails, I would like to mention that this is nearly the full size of Yerevan, or, for example, two times larger than the state of San Marino, almost equivalent to the territory of Liechtenstein, with which Armenia sometimes plays football, occasionally drawing.

This is 32 times more than what we lost in April 2016 at the cost of significant human losses on the part of the adversary. And this is on the sovereign territory of Armenia, not in a security zone surrounding Artsakh, which the so-called 'previous governments' allegedly surrendered seven times since the 90s, while Azerbaijan did not take it until 2020.

This is the same territory that, according to the 2010 law on administrative division, often exploited by the de facto authorities, clearly belongs to the sovereign territory of Armenia.”