MUCH IS ALREADY A MONTH
“The Azerbaijani army liberated several villages of the Zangilan, Jebrail and Gubadli regions and the city of Gubadli from occupation,” Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on his Twitter page.
“As a result of the strikes, 6 D-30 and 1 D-1 howitzers-guns, 2 armored vehicles of infantry fighting vehicles, 1 automobile equipment and a large number of enemy shells were destroyed,” the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry listed the military equipment destroyed on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
“I must inform that Armenia is arming itself. Every day modern weapons are supplied to Armenia,” Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said during an operational meeting with the command of the country's armed forces.
Aliyev noted that over a month “more than 100 settlements were liberated”, “300 tanks were destroyed”, “as a result of these dastardly shelling, more than 60 civilians were killed, about 300 people were injured.” Aliyev did not disclose the number of soldiers killed.
“Now they [the international community – editor's note] are worried about getting Armenia out of this situation. For this there is one way – Armenia must voluntarily leave our lands, go out,” the head of Azerbaijan said.
KARABAKH DOESN'T GIVE UP
“Heavy battles are taking place in the zone of the Karabakh conflict. The Azeri military launched an artillery strike in the northern direction, and hostilities began there, which are inferior in intensity to the battles in the south,” said Artsrun Hovhannisyan, a spokesman for the Armenian Defense Ministry.
“During the day, sabotage groups were noticed north of Gadrut and south of Martuni in the forests near several villages, including Avetaranots. The operation to search for and eliminate saboteurs continued. As a rule, sabotage groups do not enter the battle and try to hide,” the spokesman said. military department.
According to the army of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani military undertook dozens of attacks in the northern and western directions near Sanasar (Kubatly).
THIRD truce?
“I call this an easy case. We will sort it out. Go and tell this to your people … It's easy if you know what you are doing,” US President Donald Trump said about the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh speaking at a rally in New Hampshire …
The United States held intensive negotiations between the foreign ministers and the Minsk Group co-chairs on the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. They ended with a joint statement by the United States, Armenia and Azerbaijan:
“Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Reikhun Bayramov met with US Undersecretary of State Stephen Bigan on October 24 and reaffirmed their countries' commitment to revitalize and preserve the humanitarian ceasefire reached in Moscow on October 10 and reaffirmed according to a statement made in Paris October 1, according to a statement by US President Donald Sharmp, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 17.
The humanitarian ceasefire will enter into force on October 26, 2020, local time at 08:00, ”the statement reads.
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