The President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan has confirmed that “several dozens” of troops were taken captive by Azerbaijani armed forces in the direction of the village of Khtsaberd.
The Human Rights Defender of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan says he contacted several organizations and servicemen on the ground regarding the information on the troops who went missing in Khtsaberd village. “According to the information that I gathered, a military unit consisting of around 60 servicemen went missing during these days in the direction of the village of Khtsaberd in Hadrut region, and it is highly likely that the video published by the Azerbaijani side shows this very unit,” he said.
The Ministry of Defense of Artsakh announced in a statement that in the evening of December 15, in unknown circumstances, it lost contact with the military personnel of several combat positions of the Defense Army deployed in the direction of the Hin Tagher and Khtsaberd villages of Hadrut.
John Gallagher has been appointed UK’s Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia, the UK government reports.
Several villages of the Municipality of Kapan in Armenia’s southeastern province of Syunik are now bordering Azerbaijan due to the new realities. These villages are: Davit Bek, Kaghnut, Uzhanis, Yeghvard, Agarak, Ditzmair, Syunik, Geghanush, Tchakaten, Shikahogh, Srashen, Nerkin Hand and Tsav. The town of Kapan, the municipality’s administrative center, is also among them.
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stephane Visconti of France, and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America) released a statement following a regional trip, citing the official website of the OSCE.
The overhead power line extending from Armenia to Artsakh through the territory of the Kashatagh region is restored, the acting Minister of Economy and Industrial Infrastructures of Artsakh Armen Tovmasyan told ARMENPRESS. “It is noteworthy that prior to the war the electric-energy network of Artsakh was feeding from two-circuits from Armenia. The second line was […]
Aircraft transporting Armenian POWs from Azerbaijan has landed in Yerevan. President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Avinyan and the relatives of the POWs met them at the airport.
The Foreign Ministry of Artsakh has issued a statement on the occasion of the Azerbaijani provocative actions in the directions of Hin Tagher and Khtsaberd of the Hadrut region and Mets Shen and Hin Shen of the Shushi region. As 168.am was informed from the press service of the MFAS Artsakh, the statements runs as […]
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan received on December 14 OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Stéphane Visconti of France, Andrew Schofer of the United States of America, Charge d’Affaires of the Russian Federation in Armenia Aleksey Sinegubov, and Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.
