The Artsakh Defense Ministry announced on October 12 that the Defense Army continues the countermeasures on blocking and neutralizing the Turkish-backed Azeri raid team that infiltrated in the direction of Hadrut.
Since the last update the new losses are: 3 UAVs, 3 armored vehicles, 200 casualtie.
Health Minister of Armenia Arsen Torosyan sent a letter to the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus over the Azerbaijani military encroachments against the Republic of Artsakh, ARMENPRESS was informed from the Ministry of Health of Armenia.
The Azerbaijani side has suffered huge losses both in the manpower and the military equipment after the failure of its encroachments against the Artsakh frontline overnight October 11-12.
The overnight situation at the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact was “relatively stable and tense”, the Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said. However, the Azeri forces are again breaching the ceasefire.
Despite the ceasfire agreement reached between the Armenian and Azerbaijani FMs under the mediation of the Russian FM in Moscow, Azerbaijan continues to bomb Stepanakert, capital of Artsakh.
The Foreign Ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan have emphasized the severe necessity to respect the ceasefire agreement in Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone, ARMENPRESS reports the official website of the Russian MFA informs.
Today the Staff of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Artsakh got concrete information that the subversive group which entered Hadrut town on the morning killed 2 civilians at their home – the mother and her son with disability. We are making efforts to gather more information and will publish them tomorrow.
On October 8, the Azerbaijani armed forces struck two targeted blows upon the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in the city of Shushi in Artsakh, causing great destruction and injuries to children, women and the elderly in the cathedral at that time. Three Russian journalists were injured by the rocket strikes.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) welcomes the agreement on the humanitarian ceasefire of the escalating Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and stands ready, in its role as a neutral intermediary, to facilitate the handover of bodies of those killed in action and the simultaneous release of detainees.
