The Azerbaijani Genc Bozqurdlar news website is reporting that Major-General Mayis Barkhudarov of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces has been wounded in action and taken into custody by the Artsakhi military.
. There was an aggression by Azerbaijan in 2016, an aggression in July 2020, and now a renewed massive escalation across the entire perimeter of the Nagorno Karabakh line of contact with Azerbaijan, Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan said in an interview to France 24 news agency.
Several dozens of bodies of killed Azerbaijani troops are in Artsakhi controlled territory after Artsakh’s military liberated several positions which were earlier lost to the adversary amid the Azerbaijani attack that is ongoing since Sunday morning, Defense Ministry spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said.
The Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) military says 15 more of its troops have been killed amid the Azerbaijani attack.
The Human Rights Organization of Afrin has released a list of rebel divisions active in Syria that have been transported to Azerbaijan and hired as mercenaries to fight against the Artsakh military in the ongoing Azeri offensive.
The defense ministry of Artsakh informs that intense fighting continued overnight in the southern, south-eastern and northern directions of the frontline.
Military operations resumed overnight amid the ongoing Azerbaijani attack on Artsakh. Armenian Defense Ministry representative Artsrun Hovhannisyan said on social media that the Artsakh military have significant successes in the operations.
The Azerbaijani armed forces applied artillery, armored vehicles and TOS multiple rocket launcher at the Artsakh-Azerbaijani line of contact, Armenian defense minister’s spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said on Facebook.
On the morning of September 27, 2020, the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan launched an attack against Artsakh (there were air strikes and missile strikes along almost the entire length of the border, peaceful settlements in the rear were targeted, including the capital Stepanakert).
“Analysis of the collected data proves that the Azerbaijani military deliberately targeted the civilian population, which constituted a gross violation of international humanitarian law. The Human Rights Defender calls on the international community to give respective assessment to the Azerbaijani actions, moreover during the COVID-19 pandemic.
