Baku Rejects Captured Azeri Soldier as Its Own

Armenian soldiers on frontline duty in northeastern Karabakh (Photo: Photolur)

STEPANAKERT (RFE/RL)””An Azerbaijani soldier captured Thursday by the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic Army during a failed attack on Talish is being rejected by the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, which claims that the soldier was expelled.

In a statement cited by Azerbaijani news agencies, it confirmed that Huseynzade served in the Azerbaijani army but claimed that he was demobilized “some time ago”