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Story summary
- Azerbaijan observes 27 September as Remembrance Day, honoring those killed defending sovereignty and territorial integrity.
- President Ilham Aliyev led the 44-day Patriotic War that began on 27 September 2020.
- The war caused 2,908 Azerbaijani servicemen deaths, six missing, and over a thousand wounded.
- Armenian attacks killed 98 civilians, wounded 414, and destroyed more than 3,000 homes.
- Azerbaijan has invested over USD 13 billion in reconstruction, while about 1.5 million landmines still cause casualties.