“Fortunately, our colleges were not injured by the shelling. They told that there is no panic in Martakert. The locals are confident and are waiting for an order to support the Defense Army”, she said.
Bako Sahakyan highly appreciated the willingness of the “Yerkrapah” Volunteer Union to defend the homeland, and considered it an exemplary display of patriotism.
The Azerbaijani side continued bombarding civilian settlements and Defense Army positions in the line of contact on the early morning of April 4. The Press Service of the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Ministry released a statement.
“Canada firmly believes that there is no alternative to a peaceful, negotiated solution to this conflict,” Minister Dion said in a statement.
“Finally, good news. Armenian units have made major advancements in some sections of the frontline, liberating new positions and frontiers. Long live Armenian soldiers”, Hovhannisyan wrote.
Photos taken by photographer of Photolure agency Hakop Poghosyan show cruel scenes of Talish village of Artsakh, which was under the control of Azerbaijani army for a single day and destroyed the civilian population.
According to official Baku, 21 is equal to 12. To conceal its own losses, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry turns out to be applying the simple trick of swapping the figures and representing 21 casualties it suffered in only one battle as 12.
n April 2 at dawn Azerbaijan started expansive aggressive actions against NKR, implemented all the possible military technique types of its armoury, and moreover after the circulation of the same announcement Armenian peaceful residences, especially Martakert, were fired with MM-21 (“Grad”) type station artillery and 152 millimeter cannons.The mentioned facts, as well as the use of the terms “counterattacking actions” and “strengthening of emancipated regions” shows us the fake essence of that document which aims to the imitation of the fire suspension full of obvious prerequisite. The NKR Armed forces is ready to bend and discuss the suggestion of fire suspension in the context of preliminary posts resortation.”
“First, as just noted, renewed armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia causes a new headache for Turkish President Erdogan, which Putin has been keen to do since Turkey shot down a Russian military aircraft on November 24 that was violating Turkish airspace. Second, the violence erupted just one day after Presidents Aliyev and Sargsyan met separately with U.S. Vice President Biden in a meeting many observers hoped would reenergize the Minsk Group. Instead, the worst clashes since the war in the early 1990’s occur simultaneously with this promising meeting in the White House on the margins of a larger gathering hosted by President Obama, whose invitation Russian President Putin refused to accept. “
The Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army is ready to discuss the cease-fire proposal in the context of the recovery of the initial positions.