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From the Liveblog of Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Armenia claims Turkish jet shot down one of its warplanes

29 September 2020, 5:38 pm

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Armenia says that a Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down one of its SU-25 warplanes after it took off from Azerbaijan amid fierce clashes over the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region.

Illustrative: Armenian forces destroy an Azerbaijani military vehicle at the contact line of the self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, September 27, 2020. (Armenian Defense Ministry via AP)

“An Armenian SU-25 aircraft has been shot down by a Turkish F-16 warplane… which flew from Azerbaijan’s territory,” Armenian defense ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan writes on Facebook, adding that the “Armenian pilot has heroically died.”

— AFP

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