Defence Ministry Air Force Air Base, Helicopter Air Squadron:
The Azerbaijani armed forces have launched a missile bombardment attack at Stepanakert City from dawn October 17, Artsakh’s Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Artak Beglaryan said.
The “relatively stable tension” remained at the Artsakh-Azerbaijan conflict zone overnight October 16-17 and no significant changes in the tactical situation happened, the Ministry of Defense of Artsakh said.
A total of 34 civilians have been killed in Artsakh from the Azerbaijani attacks, Ombudsman of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan said on Twitter.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the Nagorno Karabakh conflict with the permanent members of the Security Council, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, RIA Novosti reports.
Armenia is denying Azeri reports alleging a strike at Ordubad region of Nakhichevan. The Armenian Defense Ministry said the report is disinformation.
The Defense Ministry of Artsakh reported on October 16 that an additional 29 of its troops were killed in action amid the Azerbaijani attacks.
It cannot live in a country where Armenianophobia is erected in the rank of state religion, 30 Armenians. Where Armenian churches are either destroyed or closed and overgrown with shrubs and trees like the Armenian church in Baku. Where there is no Armenian school. Where the Armenian cemetery (Montino, Baku), by the way, like Russian, is interrupted for new buildings. Where the murderer of a sleeping Armenian officer is heroized.
Foreign Minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan held a telephone conversation on October 15 with UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Foreign Minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan held on October 15 a telephone conversation with Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Stanislav Zas.
