Yerevan/Mediamax/. Azerbaijan lost 14 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) since it began military actions at the Line of Contact with NKR.

Rumours circulated that UAVs used by Azerbaijan were produced in Israel. There were specilations that Israeli specialists navigated the Israeli UAVs those days in Artsakh.

Armenian Defense Minister’s spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan told Mediamax that some of UAVs downed by Armenian side were of Israeli production.

Mediamax talked with Israeli Ambassador to Armenia (with residence in Jerusalem) Shmuel Meirom, asking him to comment on Israeli UAVs and information about possible involvement of Israeli specialists in their utilization.

“I don’t know about any specialist, staying in Azerbaijan during these days in order to help Azeri to activate the drones. I know nothing about it. I can’t reject or deny that Azeris used Israeli drones. It might be, because it is not a secret that we are selling Azerbaijan weapons. That is the only thing I can confirm,” Israeli Ambassador told Mediamax.

Shmuel Meirom added that Israel usually doesn’t use Israeli people, Israeli specialists in activating or using weapons against any country. “This is I can deny this definitely,” noted the Ambassador.

He doesn’t rule out the possibility that Azerbaijani Armed Forces had some training to activate the UAVs. “It might be that they were here, in Israel, or our specialists were there in order to show them how to activate the drones. It might be. But I don’t believe that this has happened during the recent escalation of the conflict. We are not used to do such things,” Shmuel Meirom told Mediamax.

Israeli Ambassador to Armenia (with residence in Jerusalem) Shmuel Meirom

Photo: Mediamax

According to the Ambassador, Israeli official position in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the following:

“We are supporting OSCE Minsk Group in order to achieve peace. We are staying on this. I guess you have not seen any official support from Israel to one of the sides of conflict. We don’t take position on or another.”