Who Will Answer?

The spokesman for the Ministry of Defense does not stop saying that the media use only official information, do not publish fakes and misinformation of the enemy. At the same time, information or commentary on the current situation in Tovuz or on messages from the other side is practically impossible to obtain.

It seems that the Ministry of Defense has chosen the tactics of protection from its own media, periodically giving out information or commentary through pro-government media.

However, the military department avoids topics in every possible way, which will have to be answered: how was the enemy able to fire at the field headquarters, where the general and a group of officers were killed? If it was in a different situation, then in which was it?

What is the situation with the UAZ vehicle? Why is there no explanation for what happened, including the deaths of the first four servicemen? Why is there no comment about the heights allegedly captured by the enemy?

To all these questions, the press service of the Ministry of Defense, like a parrot, repeats that not a centimeter of land has been captured.

Those sitting in the military department do not take into account the psychology of the public, which is not just waiting for statements like, “Do not believe the enemy,” as people have long learned to read and compare, analyze. Therefore, the calls of the military sound unconvincing.

This is more a desire to get away from criticism than to keep military secrets. Especially against the background of a recent interview with the Minister of Defense, who claimed that he was monitoring in real time everything that was happening on the enemy’s territory, including the refueling of SU-30 aircraft at airfields.

The information war is different from the ordinary war, and the night rally on the streets of Baku is largely the result of the stressful situation in which society fell due to the lack of answers to these questions.

In addition to answering questions, the responsibility of those who are to blame for the incident remains to be assessed, and the reference to military secrets will not work here.