Grad and Smerch multiple rocket launchers kept Martuni city and Taghavard village under fire.
’During the day the city was bombed a number of times. Fortunately, there are no destructions and casualties’’, Danielyan said, adding that at the moment the situation is calm.
The BBC has studied the videos showing two Armenian men taken prisoner and later shot dead by the Azerbaijani troops, confirming that the man giving commands in both videos is a native Azerbaijani speaker with a regional accent, and the helmets and rifles seen on the soldiers matched those used at least in some instances by Azerbaijani servicemen.
An Azerbaijani prisoner of war detained by the Artsakh military has said that most of the troops in his squad were not Azerbaijanis.
A video showing many Azerbaijani military materiel seized by the Artsakh Defense Army has been posted online.
The Defense Army of Artsakh will retaliate to the bombing of Stepanakert very soon, spokesperson of Artsakh’s President Vahram Poghosyan wrote on his Facebook page.
President of the Republic of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan has addressed an open letter to President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
Heavy battles are taking place in the eastern direction of the Artsakh frontline as Azeri armed forces continue attacking, Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan said.
Azerbaijan has repeatedly used widely banned cluster munitions in residential areas in Nagorno Karabakh, Human Rights Watch said, summing up the on-site investigation in Nagorno Karabakh in October 2020.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to have separate meetings with the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Jeyhun Bayramov to discuss the Nagorno Karabakh conflict on October 23 in Washington, D.C.
