Around 360 Azerbaijani troops were killed in action in the last 24 hours amid the Turkish-backed attack on Artsakh, Defense Ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan said.
The authorities of Japan call on the sides engaged in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to end the fighting and sit around the negotiation table, Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan Katsunobu Katō said, reports TASS.
A former high ranking Armenian military official is charged with high treason on suspicion of spying for the Azerbaijani intelligence agencies, the National Security Service of Armenia said.
The servicemen killed during the repulse of the Azerbaijani aggression.
Artillery battles and skirmishes took place in some sections of the Artsakh-Azerbaijani line of contact, however there has been a relative calm overnight, Acting head of the Information department at the Artsakh defense ministry Suren Sarumyan said at a press conference.
All the bodies of dead Azerbaijani serviceman that were left behind on Artsakhi territories had syringes in the pockets of their gear, Artsakh’s presidential spokesperson Vahram Poghosyan told a news briefing.
An Azerbaijani military drone breached the airspace of Artsakh and was operating above the civilian residential district of the town of Askeran. The UAV was shot down by the Artsakh military.
Armenian freestyle wrestler, 2019 European Wrestling Champion Arsen Harutyunyan has volunteered and joined the Artsakhi military amid the Azeri attacks.
Artsakh authorities say the situation at the line of contact with Azerbaijan was “relatively calm” overnight September 30-October 1.
Finally, our diplomacy has recorded a major victory, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said on Facebook.
