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President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan has declared martial law and universal mobilization.
Up to 10000 civilians across Armenia have contacted district military commissariats asking to be recruited as volunteers and join the troops amid the massive Azerbaijani attack on Artsakh.
In the early morning of September 27, Azerbaijan launched large-scale air and artillery strikes to the Artsakh-Azerbaijani contact line and numerous civilian settlements and infrastructure, including capital Stepanakert. There are civilian casualties and destructions.
Dear sisters and brothers in Artsakh, in the Motherland and in the Diaspora, I am hereby congratulating all of you on the pan-Armenian holiday – Artsakh Independence Day.
’The front line units of the Defense Army continue keeping full control of the situation and confidently carry out protection of the borders of the country’’, reads the statement.
The Artsakh military has successfully tested an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) during the final phase of a military exercise at the Tigranakert training grounds on May 19.
The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) expresses its concern over the information provided by the Russian Foreign Minister on the developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks at this stage and expresses indignation over the Armenian government’s foreign policy line regarding this issue. It is not in our national interest and can have devastating consequences for the Republic of Armenia and the Artsakh Republic.
Please accept my congratulations on your being elected as President of the Artsakh Republic, as well as on the formation of the largest parliamentary faction – the Free Homeland Alliance – in the National Assembly of Artsakh.
In a statement, the Defense Ministry expressed condolences to the family, relatives and fellow servicemen of the soldier.
