Operation Ring

When

30 Apr 1991 – 15 May 1991

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

40.47° N, 46.36° E

Description

codename for the May 1991 military operation conducted by Soviet Internal Security Forces and OMON units in the Armenian populated regions of Western Azerbaijan in the Lesser Caucasus mountains, the Shusha, Martakert and Hadrut regions

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Ethnic cleansing of Armenians committed by Soviet and Soviet Azerbaijani forces

Operation Ring, known in Azerbaijan as Operation Chaykand was the codename for the May 1991 military operation conducted by the Soviet Army, Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) of the USSR and OMON units of the Azerbaijan SSR in the Khanlar and Shahumyan districts of the Azerbaijani SSR, the Shusha, Martakert and Hadrut districts of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, and along the eastern b…

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