Armenian Ministry of Defense confirms continued fighting in Nagorno Karabakh

Yerevan-Baku,(ST)-The Armenian Ministry of Defense confirmed today that the fighting in the Nagorno Karabakh region continues, as does the mutual bombardment with artillery and light weapons continues.

“The situation is still tense on all lines of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and the tactical and operational situation has not changed,” the ministry’s spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan said today on her Facebook page, noting that the defense units of Karabakh have thwarted an attempt to advance for the Azerbaijani forces. .

In turn, Azerbaijan announced today that the battles in the Karabakh region since the end of last week have resulted in the death of 16 civilians and the injury of 55 others on the Azerbaijani side.

The Azerbaijani Prosecutor’s Office said in today’s report that the bombing, carried out by Armenian forces, damaged 163 residential buildings and 36 civilian facilities.

The situation in the Nagorno Karabakh region has witnessed a sudden military escalation since last Sunday, at a time when the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides exchanged accusations about the reasons for the escalation. These developments came two months after a similar escalation in the border region between Armenia and Azerbaijan in mid-July, where the two sides exchanged accusations of causing it.

Haifaa Mafalani