Russian President Vladimir Putin personally does everything possible to bring Yerevan and Baku to the peaceful settlement course over the situation in Nagorno Karabakh through political-diplomatic means, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said live on Chanel One Russia, RIA Novosti reports.
The Defense Ministry of Artsakh said today that 40 more of its servicemen have been killed in action in the defensive operations against the attacks of the Azerbaijani side.
The City of Fowler of the US state of California has officially recognized Artsakh as an independent country and has called on the US President and Congress to do the same.
The Armenian Ministry of Defense is denying the Azerbaijani authorities’ claims alleging Armenia has fired ballistic missiles in the direction of Gabala and Kurdamir. Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan called the allegations “utter nonsense and a cynic lie.”
The Azerbaijani armed forces are firing artillery strikes at the town of Martuni and nearby villages, the State Service of Emergency Situations of Artsakh said.
The situation at the Artsakh-Azerbaijan conflict zone overnight October 21-22 was “relatively stable-tense”, with artillery battles resuming in individual parts amid the Azerbaijani attacks, the Defense Ministry of Artsakh said.
The largest parliamentary chamber in the largest state of Australia, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly has officially recognized the independence of the Republic of Artsakh, the Armenian National Committee of Australia reports.
During the visit the FM is scheduled to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a number of other top officials.
The Artsakh Defense Army said on October 21 that an additional 62 of its troops have been killed in action amid the Azerbaijani attacks.
All three former presidents of Armenia – Levon Ter Petrosyan, Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan – held a meeting with participation of the former presidents of Artsakh.