Azerbaijanâs top brass claims 24 Armenian servicemen attempted to infiltrate Azeri border The Azerbaijani forces captured and disarmed six Armenian servicemen, others, according to the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan, hastily left the territory and retreated
BAKU, May 27. /TASS/. Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that 24 Armenian servicemen made an attempt to penetrate the republic’s territory.
Read also According to preliminary data, the enemy’s two reconnaissance and subversive groups crossed the state border in two directions. One group consisted of nine and the other of 15 servicemen. The movement of the reconnaissance and subversive groups was placed under control. The Azerbaijani Army’s units took urgent operational measures against both of the enemy’s groups upon an attempt to lay mines along supply routes and pass leading to our posts, the statement says.
Armenian Defense Ministry publishes map of area where soldiers were captured by Azeri forces
The Armenian Defense Ministry on Thursday again denied the Azerbaijani claims that six Armenian soldiers captured by the Azeri troops had crossed into Azerbaijan, sharing a map of the area where the servicemen were taken prisoner. The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan continues to spread disinformation about the capture of six Armenian servicemen by the Azerbaijani military this morning,” the ministry said in a statement.
“We reiterate that the Armenian servicemen were in the territory of the Republic of Armenia and never crossed the border. We are publishing a detailed map of the terrain,” it said.
Facebook removes dozens of Azerbaijani accounts, pages which also targeted Armenia
Facebook removed dozens of Azerbaijani accounts and pages which also targeted Armenia and were most likely linked to the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan.
“We removed 124 Facebook accounts, 15 Pages, six Groups and 30 Instagram accounts from Azerbaijan that targeted primarily Azerbaijan and to a much lesser extent Armenia,” Facefook said in a statement on Thursday.
“We found this network as a result of our internal investigation following routine enforcement against two third-party Android applications Postegro and Nunu, which misled people into giving away their Instagram credentials. It appears that this activity was separate and unrelated to the same actors’ coordinated inauthentic behavior. Our CIB investigation found links to individuals associated with the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan,” the statement read.
Russian agent accused of interfering in US elections is back meddling online, Facebook says
Police officers patrol the central Manezhnaya Square in Moscow. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)
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A man the U.S. intelligence community has assessed is an active Russian agent who interfered in U.S. elections is back stirring the pot on Facebook, the company announced Thursday.
But this time, Andriy Derkach and associates appear to have been running influence operations targeted at Ukraine, not the U.S., Facebook said. The Treasury Department previously sanctioned Derkach, whom Treasury identified as being an “active Russian agent for over a decade,” for his alleged interference in U.S. elections.