YEREVAN. – Armenia's Deputy Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan on Saturday met with Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office.

Armenian official briefed Ambassador on a special operation to evacuate the bodies of the killed pilots and undeniable facts regarding the mentioned operation.

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire and shot down a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Air Force helicopter on November 12.

The adversary, on the other hand, was firing intensive shots toward the crash site, thus, not allowing access to the area for representatives of Armenia and NKR, as well as for international agencies, OSCE and ICRC.

But the remains of these three military servicemen plus some necessary parts of the chopper were removed from the helicopter’s crash site through a special operation by the NKR armed forces. Two Azerbaijani soldiers were neutralized during the operation, but the Armenian side suffered no casualties. Azerbaijani side categorically dismissed the fact of holding a special operation.