Azerbaijan continues to conduct military operations against Nagorno-Karabakh, which began on September 19. The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reports:
“Local anti-terrorist measures… continue successfully. Combat positions, military vehicles, artillery and anti-aircraft missile launchers, electronic warfare stations and other military equipment of the formations of the Armed Forces of Armenia have been neutralized.”
Head of the press service Ministry of Defense Azerbaijani Anar Eyvazov said at a briefing last night that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in Karabakh took control of more than 60 combat positions of Armenian forces.
The Nagorno-Karabakh Foreign Ministry announced on the morning of September 20 that the capital Stepanakert (Khankendi) and other settlements were subjected to massive artillery and rocket attacks and airstrikes. The ministry reported casualties, including among civilians.
According to the Karabakh Foreign Ministry, fighting along the entire length of the contact line continues with varying intensity. Azerbaijani Armed Forces continue operations to promote their positions, including civil infrastructure facilities.
“The peaceful settlements of Artsakh (the Armenian name for Nagorno-Karabakh) continue to be a direct target of the Azerbaijani armed forces. Strikes by Azerbaijani aviation and rocket and artillery bombing in the direction of Stepanakert and the regions of the republic have not stopped for about an hour,” the emergency service told Interfax. Ministry of Internal Affairs of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) on Wednesday, September 20.
In addition, the NKR military department announced military operations on the ground. “The fighting along the entire line of contact continues with varying intensity. Units of the Azerbaijani armed forces, with fire support from various types of weapons, continue their positional advance actions. Strikes are also carried out on civilian infrastructure,” the press service of the NKR Ministry of Defense stated, emphasizing that the units of the Karabakh armies are resisting.
According to the NKR Ombudsman, since the beginning of hostilities in the republic, 27 people have been killed, including two civilians, and at least two hundred people have been injured.
Some Armenians gathered in Yerevan to demand from government action. There were reports of violent clashes between police and crowds, leaving people on both sides injured.
Karabakh is an internationally recognized territory of Azerbaijan. It is inhabited by ethnic Armenians who consider this territory the homeland of their ancestors.
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