🇦🇲🇷🇺 It was strange and puzzling information for us that Azerbaijan officially notified Russia about the beginning of these actions. Of course, this is Azerbaijan's version, this is information, I want to draw attention to it, but the fact is that we have not received any information from our Russian partners about this operation.

[Nikol Pashinyan]

‼️ Azerbaijani Armed Forces units continue firing from various types of weapons along the contact line. Units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces are also attempting positional advancement. The Artsakh Defense Army is taking defensive measures. [Artsakh Defense Army]

❗️ If they claim that the so-called counter-terrorism operation is taking place, and civilian infrastructures and citizens are not a target to shelling, then the question arises, why do they declare the opening of a humanitarian corridor for people to leave Nagorno-Karabakh?

🔸 If their words had any relation to reality, on the contrary, they would have to urge citizens to stay in shelters and not go out to places where they may be injured. And this logic developed by Azerbaijan clearly shows the beginning of a specific ethnic cleansing operation.

[Nikol Pashinyan]

‼️ Azerbaijan's actions are nothing but a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide, and by carrying it out, Baku is speculating on the humanitarian corridor and other false agendas of humanism.

🔸 President of Artsakh Samvel Shahramanyan urgently convened a meeting of the Security Council and discussed the situation and further actions.

🔸As a result of the military operation of Azerbaijan, there are casualties and injured people, including women, elderly and children.

[Administration of the President of Artsakh]

🇪🇺 There is an urgent need to return to dialogue between Baku and Karabakh Armenians. This military escalation should not be used as a pretext to force the exodus of the local population.

The European Union condemns the military escalation along the Line of Contact and in other locations in Karabakh. The EU deplores the loss of lives brought by the escalation. We call for the immediate cessation of hostilities and for Azerbaijan to stop the current military activities. [Statement by Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy]

🇷🇺🗣️ "One day my colleague from a fraternal country said to me: "Well, I'm a stranger to you, you won't accept me." I answered what I should have answered: "We will judge not by biography, but by actions."

Then he lost the war. Then he decided to shift the responsibility for his incompetent defeat to Russia. Then he ceded part of the territory of his country.

Then he decided to flirt with NATO, and his wife defiantly went to our enemies with cookies. Guess what fate awaits him...

[Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, wrote in Telegram]

🇫🇷🇺🇳 France demands an extraordinary session of the UN Security Council on the situation in Artsakh.

📣 The French Foreign Ministry also calls on Azerbaijan to immediately cease the action, noting that only Azerbaijan bears responsibility for the fate of the civilian population of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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[Artsakh Public TV]

‼️The Karabakh side appeals to the Azerbaijani side to immediately cease fire and sit down at the negotiating table to resolve the situation.

[NKR InfoCenter]

🔸 At the moment, the intensity of fire on the contact line has significantly decreased. [Artsakh Defense Army]

🇺🇸🇦🇲 Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

📌 The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh after the Azerbaijani attack was discussed. The sides stressed the inadmissibility of the use of force and the need to use international mechanisms for de-escalation.

[Nazeli Baghdasaryan, the spokesperson of the Prime Minister]

🇷🇺 As long as the peacekeepers themselves are not in danger, they do not have the right to use weapons. [Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov]

🔸 The Human Rights Defender of Artsakh reports that the number of wounded among the civilian population is 26 people.

🔸He notes that there are casualties among the servicemen as well.

🇦🇲🇫🇷 Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron.

📌 The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh after the Azerbaijani attack was discussed. The sides stressed the inadmissibility of the use of force and the need to use international mechanisms for de-escalation.

🇺🇳 The French President said that in connection with the current situation, France is initiating an urgent meeting in the UN Security Council:

[the Spokesperson of the Prime Minister]

‼️Hundreds of citizens are protesting outside the government building of the Republic of Armenia. They demand the resignation of the Prime Minister.

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan is ready to meet with representatives of Karabakh Armenians in Yevlakh.

📣 The Office of the President of Azerbaijan issued a statement about this, adding that they had been invited to "reintegration talks several times before, but they did not come."

🔸"At the same time, in order to stop counter-terrorism activities, illegal Armenian armed formations should set up a white flag, hand over all weapons, and the illegal regime should be self-dissolved. Otherwise, counter-terrorism measures will continue until the end," the statement reads.

🇦🇲🇩🇪 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany called on Azerbaijan to stop military operations in Nagorno-Karabakh and sit down at the negotiating table.

🇪🇺 "Germany supports the negotiations that are being led by the EU. Given today's escalation, this is more relevant than ever," the German Foreign Minister stressed.

🇷🇺🗣️ Amidst the military operation carried out by the Azerbaijani armed forces, the primary goal is to ensure the safety of the civilian population in Karabakh, of course, we are talking about the Armenian population. To do this, all necessary measures must be taken. [Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson of the Russian President]

❗️Yeghtsahogh community of Shushi region with a total of 150 residents has come under the direct target of the Azerbaijani side.

🏫 The Azerbaijani armed forces have destroyed the school of the community. There is no opportunity to evacuate the residents, they are completely surrounded by Azerbaijan. [Gegham Stepanyan, Human Rights Defender of Artsakh]

‼️Battles continue along the entire contact line.

The Azerbaijani Armed Forces use artillery and missile means, attack UAVs, combat aviation. [Artsakh Defense Army]