The Azerbaijani armed forces applied artillery, armored vehicles and TOS multiple rocket launcher at the Artsakh-Azerbaijani line of contact, Armenian defense minister’s spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said on Facebook.
“Analysis of the collected data proves that the Azerbaijani military deliberately targeted the civilian population, which constituted a gross violation of international humanitarian law. The Human Rights Defender calls on the international community to give respective assessment to the Azerbaijani actions, moreover during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Secretary of the Security Council of Artsakh Samvel Babayan says 10 serviceman of the Artsakh military have been killed in the Azerbaijani attack.
Armenia is expected to convene a Security Council meeting and then the government will discuss the potential declaration of martial law and partial mobilization, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.
A woman and a child have been killed in Martuni region amid the ongoing Azerbaijani military attack on Artsakh, Ombudsman Artak Beglaryan said.
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.
The Azerbaijani military has launched a massive cross-border artillery attack on Artsakh, including on civilian settlements.
Numerous civilians reported that villages, towns and the capital of Stepanakert are targeted. This extremely worrying news was also officially reported by the Human Rights Defender and the Defense Army of Artsakh.
429 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in Armenia in the past one day, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 49,072, the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention said today.
374 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in Armenia in the past one day, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 48,251, the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention said today.
