Saturday, October 10, 2020

Armenia & Azerbaijan report ‘intense’ shelling & drone strikes shortly before Nagorno-Karabakh truce enters into force — RT

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 Baku and Yerevan accused each other of attacks hours before their ceasefire began at 12pm local time on Saturday. Russia brokered the truce after lengthy talks in Moscow between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers.

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry accused Armenia of launching volleys of rockets at the town of Hadrut in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh and “intensively” shelling several Azerbaijani villages on Saturday morning. A representative from the Armenian Ministry of Defense denied that the country's forces had targeted Hadrut. Baku said earlier that its army had seized the town during an offensive into Nagorno-Karabakh, but Yerevan disputed that claim, saying that Armenians were still in control of it.

Armenia’s Defense Ministry spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan, meanwhile, said that Azerbaijan used combat drones on Saturday to attack two villages in the Syunik region in the southern part of the country. The claim was rejected by Baku.

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  1. France Says Nagorno-Karabakh Ceasefire Must Now Be Implemented, Respected to Ensure Conditions in Place for Permanent End of Hostilities

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  2. The Azerbaijani armed forces intensified drone attacks in the southern area of the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh despite agreements on a humanitarian truce reached by the foreign ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow, Armenian Defense Ministry Press Secretary Shushan Stepanyan wrote on her Facebook on Saturday.

    "After a statement following a meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan in Moscow, the Azerbaijani armed forces stepped up the use of drones in the southern direction. The enemy … is trying to change the situation before 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, before a ceasefire announced for humanitarian purposes," the press secretary said.

    "The units of the defense army of Artsakh [the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic] are thwarting all the enemy attacks, inflicting heavy losses in manpower and in the arsenal of UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles]," she wrote on her Facebook.

    The Azerbaijani armed forces employed a strike drone in an attack on the village community of Yeritsvank and also the settlement of Artsvanik in the Kapan region of the Syunik province in Armenia. There are no casualties, according to available information, Stepanyan said.

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  3. An air raid siren is being heard in Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital of Stepanakert despite the ceasefire agreed by Armenia and Azerbaijan with Russia’s mediation, a TASS correspondent reports from the scene.

    No shell explosions are being heard in the city. The air raid siren was on throughout the morning with some interruptions. Possibly, reconnaissance drones are flying over Stepanakert.

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  4. At Least 5 Dead, 28 Injured in Ganja Shelling by Armenian Forces - Azeri Prosecutor General's Office

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    1. On early Sunday, Azeri Defence Ministry said that Ganja, which is the second largest city in the country, had been shelled by Armenian forces. The statement followed an announcement made by Nagorno-Karabakh that several large villages were attacked by the Azeri forces.

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